Learning from Dalit Women Fighting for Land Rights in Punjab

Mar 31, 2020 | Tarini Manchanda
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Stories about Dalit women often go untold, even though women of this social category continue to face discrimination in the caste system as the most oppressed social group in India. In Punjab, North India—where about 32% of residents are Dalit— the women in one village share accounts of significant discrimination and social pressure. In response to this treatment, Dalit women from 115 families in this village fought and won their right to cultivate land that does not belong to upper caste men.