From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following is a list of notable
Dalit people organised by profession, field, or focus.
Academics
Cinema and television
Activists
Politicians
Presidents
Prime Ministers
Politicians
Mallikarjun Kharge , Indian lawyer and politician and current President of
Indian National Congress .
Jogendra Nath Mandal ,
[33] one of the central figures in creation of the state of Pakistan; later a government minister
Ram Vilas Paswan , 11 times Member of Parliament and many times Minister in Central Government; founder and President of
Lok Janshakti Party
[34]
Sushilkumar Shinde , Chief Minister Of Maharashtra and Union
Minister of Home Affairs (India)
[35]
Prakash Yashwant Ambedkar , President of
Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi , former Parliamentarian
[36]
Ashok Tanwar ,
[37] President of Haryana Congress, former Member of Parliament
Ram Ratan Ram , Member of Parliament 1984-1989, MLA and Minister in Bihar State 1952-1984 [
citation needed ]
Chief Ministers
Members of the State Legislative assembly/council (MLA and MLC)
Others
Judges=
Literature
Art
Music
Religion and reform
See also
References
^ Library, International and Area Studies.
"LibGuides: Dalits: Dr. B. R. Ambedkar" . guides.library.illinois.edu . Retrieved 2022-05-01 .
^
"Dr Meghnad Saha & Rocket Boys" . Times of India Blog . 2022-03-02. Retrieved 2022-04-30 .
^
"Dalit Dreams" . Times of India . 16 January 2004. Retrieved 14 September 2016 .
^
" 'A largely Upper-caste Media is Not Good for India's Democracy' " . The Wire . Retrieved 5 September 2020 .
^
"Dalits in media feel the sting of caste discrimination" . Firstpost . 13 August 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2020 .
^ Date, Vidyadhar (22 December 2002).
"Dalits beat the drums of pride" . The Times of India . Retrieved 12 September 2022 .
^
"Is the BJP Using Chirag Paswan to Reduce Nitish Kumar's Clout in Bihar?" . The Wire . Retrieved 5 August 2020 .
^ Son of the Dalit leader, founder and president of
Ram Vilas Paswan .
^
"Kalabhavan Mani could sing, dance and act with his entire body" . 8 March 2016.
^
"I don't want to be known as a Dalit filmmaker: Kabali director" . Indian Express . 29 July 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2021 .
^
"How a Grass Cutter's Child Became Indian Cinema's First Dalit Woman Actor" . The Better India . 29 January 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2022 .
^ चैहान, Jitesh Singh Chauhan जीतेश सिंह (1 February 2015).
"Dalits in Indian cinema" . Forward Press . Retrieved 5 September 2020 .
^
"Neeraj Ghaywan responds to Vivek Agnihotri's Dalit tweet; Twitter lines up in support of the Masaan director" . Firstpost . 2022-01-04. Retrieved 2022-09-11 .
^ Ghaywan, Neeraj [@ghaywan] (January 3, 2018).
"I am a Dalit. I won the Cannes film award for our country..." (
Tweet ) – via
Twitter .
^ Saha, Lena (2014-03-02).
"The caste story is not over yet: Nagraj Manjule" .
Hindustan Times . Retrieved 2022-09-11 .
^
"I have come to break draupadi's curse" . Times of India . Retrieved 23 September 2023 .
^
"Anand Teltumbde: Cards and letters for jailed India scholar as he turns 70" . 1 September 2020.
^
"Forgotten Hero: Ayyankali, the Dalit Legend Who Brought Social Justice to Travancore" . The Better India . 17 October 2017. Retrieved 5 April 2022 .
^
Zelliot, Eleanor (2010).
"India's Dalits: Racism and Contemporary Change" . Global Dialogue . 12 (2). Archived from
the original on 2013-04-30.
^
"Freedom fighter, Dalit icon: Remembering Tamil Nadu's Immanuel Sekaran" . 11 September 2016.
^ Basu, Soma (2013-07-25).
"Of valour and victory" . The Hindu .
ISSN
0971-751X . Retrieved 2022-05-01 .
^ Stancati, Margherita (2011-01-23).
"A Female Dalit Poet Fights Back in Verse" . Wall Street Journal .
ISSN
0099-9660 . Retrieved 2021-05-18 .
^
"Remembering Rettamalai Srinivasan, the Lasting Emblem of Dalit Political Aspiration" . thewire.in . Retrieved 2022-05-06 .
^
"Don't remember the 1857 Mutiny with Rani of Jhansi alone. You're missing out on Uda Devi" . ThePrint . 2022-04-18. Retrieved 2022-04-30 .
^
"KR Narayanan — the President who didn't hesitate to call a spade a spade" . ThePrint . 2019-11-09. Retrieved 2022-03-22 .
^ Najar, Nida (20 July 2017).
"India Picks Ram Nath Kovind, ' as President" . The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Retrieved 31 March 2021 .
^
"Jagjivan Ram" . Der Spiegel . 26 August 1979. Retrieved 2020-08-04 .
^ The Dalit who was not allowed to sit with the Upper Castes had passed Matriculation from Benaras Hindu University. From Untouchables " Chamars" to Minister of India.
Jagjivan Ram , the Dalit Leader of India
ISBN
81-7041-496-2 by S.R, Bakshi.
^ Bakshi, S. R. (1992-01-01).
Jagivan Ram: The Harijan Leader . South Asia Books.
ISBN
978-81-7041-496-4 .
^
"Suraj Bhan for Vice-President? | India News - Times of India" . The Times of India . TNN. Jul 17, 2002. Retrieved 5 April 2022 .
^ Kumar, Krishna (August 5, 2012).
"Congress may project Meira Kumar as Bihar CM candidate" . Deccan Herald .
^
"Wankhede or Punjab or Bengal, why Dalit rights panel is accused of being partisan to BJP" . ThePrint . 2021-11-08. Retrieved 2022-05-06 .
^
"Dalits' dream of Pakistan" . DAWN.COM . 9 May 2016.
^
" 'Ram Vilas Dalit face wherever you go, Jitan Ram Manjhi can be Mahadalit face' " . The Indian Express . 2015-07-29. Retrieved 2020-08-04 .
^ Kumar, Krishna (August 5, 2012).
"Family retainer with Dalit card" . India Today . Retrieved 2020-08-04 .
^
"Vemula's mom, brother embrace Buddhism on Ambedkar Jayanti" .
The Times of India . 15 April 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2021 .
^
"Ashok Tanwar: Keeping promises is the biggest task" . GulfNews.com . 6 November 2010. Retrieved 2017-08-04 .
^ Kumar, Krishna (August 5, 2012).
"Former Chief Minister Damodaram Sanjivayya's Birth Anniversary Celebrated" . Indian Express .
^
"Former Bihar Chief Minister Ram Sundar Das passes away at 95" . India Today . March 7, 2015. Retrieved 2022-03-22 .
^
a
b
"Before Punjab CM Channi, here are Dalit leaders who held top post in country" . Hindustan Times . 2021-09-21. Retrieved 2022-04-11 .
^
"Kejriwal to visit BSP founder Kanshi Ram's family" . Hindustan Times . 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2020-08-04 .
^
"Who was Bangaru Laxman?" . India Today . 1 March 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2022 . ...Bangaru Laxman was born in a Madiga Dalit family..
^
"Former Haryana Minister K R Punia joins Cong" . 22 June 2010. Retrieved 3 January 2022 . ...Mr Punia was a Dalit leader and he enjoyed the support of Dalit mass base...
^ Hegde, Sanjay (14 April 2015).
"There were some Dalit leaders like B. Shyam Sunder, who vociferously said: "We are not Hindus, we have nothing to do with the Hindu caste system, yet we have been included among them by them and for them." " . The Hindu . Retrieved 6 September 2015 .
^ Pant, Parth (2019-12-15).
"The Epic Of Dalit Literature: When I Hid My Caste By Baburao Bagul" . Feminism In India . Retrieved 2022-05-01 .
^
"Daya Pawar" . www.goodreads.com . Retrieved 2022-05-01 .
^ Maitreya, Yogesh (5 August 2019).
"Dalit writing, global contexts: Re-examining the legacy of Lal Singh Dil, Punjab's 'Poet of the Revolution' " . Retrieved 28 May 2021 .
^
"Kamatipura (poem)" . www.poetryinternationalweb.net . Retrieved 2017-07-09 .
^
"Neerav Patel, poet and pioneer of Dalit literature in Gujarat, passes away; but power of his verses lives on" . Firstpost . 21 May 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2022 .
^ Valmiki, Omprakash (July 2008).
Joothan: An Untouchable's Life . Translated by Mukherjee, from the Hindi by Arun Prabha. Columbia University Press.
ISBN
978-0-231-50337-2 .
^
"Bureaucracy treated me like an untouchable: Ex-IAS officer Sivakami (IANS Interview)" . Business Standard India . 4 February 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2021 .
^
"Hiding myself and coming out as a Dalit was a privileged decision: Yashica Dutt" . The Indian Express . 2020-01-29. Retrieved 2021-07-07 .
^ Sharma, Kamayani.
" 'In all my years, no gallery has represented me': Savindra Sawarkar on Brahmanism in the arts" . Scroll.in . Retrieved 2023-05-12 .
^
"Mehsampur: A film in search of a film on the 'Elvis of Punjab' " . The Week . Retrieved 7 April 2022 .
^ Samos, Sumeet (2017-10-22).
"Rapper Sumeet Samos Narrates A Short Story of Caste Based Institutional Discrimination In JNU - The Companion" . The Companion . Retrieved 2018-08-12 .
^ DHNS.
"Kolar woman appointed UNHRC special rapporteur" . Deccan Herald . Retrieved 2024-06-14 .
^ Sud, Nina (5 July 2018).
"Chokhamela: The Outcast Who Found His Way Into The Hearts of Many" . Paraphernalia . Retrieved 7 April 2022 .
^
"Church hierarchy accused of ignoring attack on Dalit bishop" . ucanews.com .
^
"As PM Modi Addresses Event on His 211th Birth Anniversary, A Glimpse of The Life of Harichand Thakur" . News18 . 2022-03-29. Retrieved 2022-05-01 .
^
"India's First Dalit Archbishop Holds 'No Grudge' Over Predecessor's Attack" . ChristianityToday.com .