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Ishita Pradhan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Caste-based discrimination persists as a formidable barrier within Indian higher education, compelling Dalit students to employ university spaces not only for learning but as arenas for activism and social change. This dissertation explores the agency of Dalit students as they confront and dismantle systemic inequalities through strategic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Higher Education, Activism
Rinker, Jeremy A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation is an attempt to understand the meta-narratives of justice operating within the "Trailokya Bauddha Mahasangha, Sahayak Gana" (TBMSG), a dalit Buddhist social movement active in Maharashtra, India. The movement, a vestige of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar's 1956 conversion to Buddhism, is actively fighting for dalits rights by…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Social Action, Conflict, Social Change