On 15 August 1973, the twenty-sixth anniversary of Indian Independence, Dalit Panthers, an organization founded by young Dalits in 1972 to evoke ideas of blackness and black power for representing ...

An activist of the street he is best known as one of the founding members of the revolutionary anti-caste movement, Dalit Panthers, in Maharashtra. A literary giant, with over 40 books published ...

“But we can never forget Bhagwat dada. He was the first martyr of the Dalit Panthers,” he said. Built on the ideals of the Black Panthers, the Dalit Panthers were forged in 1972, as a response ...

Atrocities against Dalits are taking place regularly across India. However, from the Dalit Panthers movement that was started by poets and writers to fight against caste oppression, to other ...