Land is power and labour makes wealth: how dominant castes use land to command Dalit labour, and how Dalits fight back.
Telangana says it is testing an allegation against a former chief minister. The notices have gone to Dalit families who have farmed Erravalli's assigned land for 60 years.
When we refused to allow the revenue officials to survey our land, they told us that it would be taken at any cost as the plot was assigned to us by the government.
Telangana says it is testing an allegation against a former chief minister. The notices have gone to Dalit families who have farmed Erravalli's assigned land for 60 years.
For 111 days, viewers in India could not see Tarluvada's Dalit residents describe losing land to Google's data centre. The order came from the state police, and no one has explained it.
Colonial officials reserved DC Manna land for the "Depressed Classes". Officials say 190 acres are left, and Dakshina Kannada's Dalit groups say they will step up protests if allotments don't begin.
From 1892 the colonial state granted land to the "Depressed Classes" on condition it stay with them. Tamil Nadu says 186,000 of 1.2 million acres are left, and promises a commission.
Tenants became owners. Dalit labourers, kept out of tenancy by caste, got homestead plots of ten cents at most, and many families are still waiting for land.