![]() ![]() Opinion| It’s time India paid reparations to its Dalits As the Dalit Panther Archive shows, in 1970s Maharashtra, for instance, art played second fiddle - as images accompanying radical Dalit writings. Unlike Dalit literature, which eventually claimed its place in literary canons, art has historically played a lesser role in the Dalit movement across India. There hasn’t been a seminal exhibition that chronicles Dalit resistance, scholarship on Dalit art is limited to a few works, such as Gary Michael Tartakov’s Dalit Art and Visual Imagery (2012), and, most galleries don’t represent practices on Dalit identity. The Indian art world has largely maintained a conspicuous silence on the subject of caste. ![]() Delightful yet disquieting, merry or funerary, the works take on food politics, personal experiences, histories of discriminatory practices and more, inevitably faceting a Dalit expression in art in a country where incidents of caste violence - from social exclusion and lynching to rape and murder - are reported nearly every week. ![]() ![]() More is among a generation of young artists eager to secure a place for Dalit identities in the Indian art world. Sunday Eye| A publishing house that is translating Dalit writers’ works into English ![]()
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