Black feminist Audre Lorde in her now famous essay wrote that 'Black Feminism is not White Feminism in Blackface'. Similarly, Dalit feminism is not Bhramanical feminism. Existing outside the boundary of hegemonic femininity it provides a critique of the many exclusions Dalit and other Indian women face in everyday society and academia.

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Dalit scholar and activist Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd speaks about spritual fascism in India that has demonised Dalit, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist people as outsiders and disruptive forces in the Indian state. At a time when tribal Christian people in Manipur face a genocide his warning against Hindutava are prophetic.

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Shepherd, Kancha Ilaiah. (2019). Buffalo nationalism: A critique of spiritual fascism. Sage Publications Pvt. Limited. New Delhi.

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