The book "A LAND OF OUR OWN: Conversation With Dalit Members of Constituent Assembly" is the English version of Sambidhanma Dalit: Sabhasad Sambaad, the first book SAMATA foundation published in collaboration with Jagaran Media Center (JMC) in 2009, which consists of a collection of interviews with Dalit members of the Constituent Assembly (CA). Further, this book...
Among the series of publication of SAMATA foundation, it is the twelfth book comprising of Dalit related agendas that were raised and discussed strongly during the first and second constitutional assembly. In a way, the book has scripted the Dalit struggle for ensuring their rights in the constitution. The book consists of Dalit issues guaranteed...
The book "Buddha and Karl Marx" is a written form of the speech delivered by Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar at the closing session of the Fourth Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists in the State Gallery Hall in Kathmandu on 20th November, 1956. The speech is considered as the final international speech of Ambedkar before...
It isn't a matter of surprise that when we encounter the melancholy of a voice subdued for so long, it hits you hard and touches the very strings of your heart and irrevocably unhinges the very being of us that makes us question almost everything. It would take a stone hearted and extremely unfeeling heart...
The book "Pyuthan Okharkotka Dalitharu" is based on an ethnographic research done at Pyuthan, Okharkot, under the project led by the Okharkot Tourism and Rural Development Service Committee Campaign to prepare a Okharkot Encyclopedia after profound research of all the aspects about Okharkot and other ten related Village Development Committees in Pyuthan district. The research...
The Policy paper, “Dalit: Thaar Gotra Bhraam Ra Yatartha” consists of different issues related with Thar and Gotra inside Dalits. Likewise, writer defines the terms gotra, jaat and thar which clears the illusion and misunderstanding surrounding the terms. He also puts forth the issues related to citizenship of Dalits which generated problems in past, caused...
The book Nepalma Sakaaratmak Upaye ra Samajik Samaawesikaran: awadharana, aanubhav ra upadeyeta (Positive remedy and Social inclusion in Nepal: concept, experience and utility), written by Dr. Yam Bahadur Kisan and published by SAMATA foundation manifests itself in seven chapters. The first Chapter deeply illustrates the concept of positive discrimination and social inclusion in Nepal. The...
This book Sangharshama Sabhasad is a short biography of forty parliamentarians from Dalit community in the second Constituent Assembly (CA). These parliamentarians differed in their thoughts concerning the Dalit agendas given the fact that they were from various political, economic, social and cultural backgrounds. However, all of them shared long and unremitting struggle and life...
“Verna System and Class Struggle in Nepal” is a book written by Aahuti. It was the first academic book published by SAMATA Foundation and is prescribed as a reference book by Tribhuvan University for students of Sociology and Anthropology in the Master’s degree program. This book vividly portrays the history of Nepali Dalits, their difficulties...
This book is a rare masterpiece, a collection of ground breaking benchmark Dalit movements including 'Pasupati temple entry struggle', 'Kotihome Sangarsha', 'sino bahiskar andolan'. Brilliantly and engagingly written, 'Dalan Biruddha Pratirodh', comes up with explanation of how the priorities of the Dalit movements have been shifting over the decades ranging from 'Gorakhkali temple entry struggle'...