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Dalits demand education quota, separate budget (The Independent)
Seminar organised by Bangladesh Dalit Parishad and NGO Parittran
Children bear the brunt of caste abuses in rural MP – Hindustan Times
From being forced to eat mid-day meals in marked out plates to being asked to sit in the back rows of their classrooms, Dalit schoolchildren across rural Madhya Pradesh face dozens of grim abuses, a new study backed by rights group ActionAid has revealed.
The land of exclusion (Frontline – Jayati Ghosh)
Jayati Ghosh - "India may well have the most complex & entrenched system of discrimination & exclusion in the world.
Gender and caste discrimination linked to school dropouts in India: Experts (ummid.com)
Stopping the Small Hands of Slavery (Human Rights Watch)
Human Rights Watch South Asia Director, Meenakshi Ganguly,says caste discrimination is partly to blame for child labour in India, as discrimination pushes many Dalit children to drop out of education.
Dalit school students beaten up, expelled for drinking from common water pot (The Times of India)
Caste discrimination in India’s elite institutions: Students (DNA)
A survey among first year students (2013-14 batch) belonging to various SC, ST and OBC categories, has revealed that an alarming 56% of them feel discriminated against in the institution.
Dalit children barred from entering govt school and beat up at the gate in UP (India Today)
“For Nepal’s Dalits, Struggle Continues Amidst Slow Progress” (IPS Video reportage)
India’s free school lunches can fight — or reinforce — caste discrimination in India (Public Radio International)
Report says caste, gender discrimination rampant in schools (Indian Express)
"Children from the SC/ST categories are routinely segregated from other children, made to sit and eat separately; food cooked by SC/ST cooks is often refused by many children or their parents. There are also cases where Dalit students are served from a distance, and several students bring their own plates for fear of utensils being touched by Dalit classmates. Instances of gender discrimination as well with only girls being made to serve meals in some schools, reports have revealed."
Dalit children to miss out on education (The Hindu)
By C. Jaisankar
Most Dalit students dropout before School Leaving exams (Republica)
Nepal: Dalit students drop our of high school before reaching their final exam - school records reveal.
The primary trauma (The Indian Express)
How casteism is expressed in schools, and how it perpetuates inequalities
On Why Caste Based Reservation Is Necessary (Countercurrents)
15-year-old boy forced to strip by teacher, dies after suicide attempt (Hindustan Times)
Caste Discrimination in Higher Education: Unlearning undemocratic values (The Hindu)
India’s long-standing legacies of caste, gender and class antagonism replicate on campuses as well. As higher education moves forward, it does so on these social cleavages. By Sukhadeo Thorat