“Only the excluded have the stamina to destabilize oppressive structures”
“Dalit studies are driven not by a sense of fascination with the phenomenon of caste but by social responsibility and moral commitment for social transformation. This will elevate the empirical to the universal”, said Prof. Gopal Guru from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in his keynote address at an international colloquium on “Caste, Religion and Culture” in Kochi, Kerala, India.