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April 15, 2016

Identity Politics: Dalit Bahujan Adivasi Collective opposed the choice of historian Romila Tahapr as the 2016 Ambedkar Memorial Lecture speaker

Cancel Romila Thapar as Ambedkar Memorial Lecture speaker as she "overlooked" caste issues: Dalit body
By Our Representative
In a surprising move, a top Dalit rights organization, Dalit Bahujan Adivasi Collective (DBAC), has taken strong exception to Prof Romila Thapar, one of the foremost historians of India, for the 2016 Ambedkar Memorial Lecture (AML) at the Ambedkar University, Delhi (AUD).

read more at: http://www.counterview.net/2016/04/cancel-romila-thapar-as-ambedkar.html


see also:

Open Letter to VC, Ambedkar University: Reconsider Invitation to Prof. Romila Thapar for Ambedkar Memorial Lecture

http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8560:open-letter-to-vc-ambedkar-university-reconsider-invitation-to-prof-romila-thapar-for-ambedkar-memorial-lecture&catid=129:events-and-activism&Itemid=195