On the life and activities of Ayyaṅkāḷi, 1863-1941, social reformer and Dalit leader from Kerala, India.

In a sensitive and compelling account of the lives of those at the very bottom of Indian society, Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany explore the construction

Biography of Ayyaṅkāḷi, 1863-1941, social reformer from Kerala, who fought against caste-based and other social discrimination.

The word ‘Dalit’ was derived from the Sanskrit word ‘dal’ means broken, ground-down, downtrodden or depressed. They constituting seventeen percentage of

The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography trace the strategies through which Dalits have been marginalized as well as the ways Dali