Contextualizing the Emergence of Dalit Studies in Indian Academia

Pathania, Gaurav J and Kalyani, K (2023) Contextualizing the Emergence of Dalit Studies in Indian Academia. In: Critical Perspectives on the Denial of Caste in Educational Debate. Routledge. ISBN 9781003155065

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Abstract

This chapter provides the emergence and practice of Dalit Studies within academia through a critical engagement with curriculum structures that exist within pedagogic discourses. It explores different kinds of academic writings that have prevailed within Dalit discourse by looking into their composition, engagement with the curriculum, and pedagogic practices. The Dalit community has created spaces for the emergence of public debates and conferences, study groups, and seminars that enable the discursive engagement with Dalit Studies. One of the major milestones in Dalit discourse was taken up by Sukhadeo Thorat, who, under his chairmanship of University Grants Commission, granted the institutional setup of the Center for the Study of Social Discrimination and Exclusion for a systematic engagement with Dalit discourse. Dalit feminist scholars have highlighted “contradictions in schooling in that curricula and school cultures reproduce Brahmanical values”.

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Pathania, Gaurav J and Kalyani, K

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