National Seminar: Patterns of Dalit Social Mobility in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab Departmrnt of Political Science Panjab University Chandigarh
Seminar on Dalit social mobility ends
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, March 1 2009
A national-level seminar on “Dalit Social Mobility” concluded here yesterday. A documentary directed by noted Dalit rights advocate Chandra Bhan was screened on the occasion. Dr Ronki Ram, while putting forward an alternate agenda said that the existing models are unable to explain Dalit mobility in Punjab and showed how the “adharma” movement was different from both.
Dr Mujibur Rehman made a presentation on the missing Ambedkar among Indian Muslims. He brought to light the plight of Muslim dalits and how they had been completely ignored. Dr Himanshu Roy and
Dr. Bhupinder Yadav also presented papers in this session. Afroz Alam, Utkarsh and Mogallan Bharati focused on the issue of dalit mobility and mobilization in UP while Ramesh Nayak’s study looked at the issue of social mobility among safai karamcharis..
The presentations were followed by an intense discussion session in which students, researchers and teachers from the university and colleges in Punjab participated.
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