Ambedkarite Dalit Feminist Ethnographer
I am a Dalit woman scholar and thinker. My work grows from the lived realities of caste and gender. My journey into academia is inseparable from my social location. I grew up under the weight of caste and within traditions of community, care, and resistance. These experiences shape my research and writing.
An Ambedkarite Dalit Feminist Ethnographer draws on the radical legacies of B. R. Ambedkar and Savitribai Phule. This approach combines ethnography with a politics of liberation. It examines how caste, gender, and education shape everyday life. It also commits to producing knowledge that resists caste patriarchy and affirms dignity.
My doctoral research in Education at the University of Sydney examined how caste, gender, and education intersect in the lives of Dalit women in Indian higher education. Through ethnographic research in Odisha, I traced voices, silences, and struggles that reveal both inequality and possibilities for change.
This space brings research and reflection together. Here I share articles, essays, field notes, and resources. I aim to build solidarity, provoke critical thought, and foreground counter-narratives that challenge dominant structures of knowledge.
Being a Dalit woman shapes what I study and how I study. I work with care, refusal, and epistemic justice. I see knowledge-making as a collective act of survival and resistance.
Researchers, students, activists, and readers are welcome here. Let us learn, unlearn, and remember together toward an anti-caste Dalit feminist future.
