How to be an ally to Dalit rights in India instead of performing allyship, a short 🧵 As a savarna woman academic, I have found myself ill-equipped in showing solidarity to annihilation-of-caste movements. My approach to doing better has been research+listen+amplify Dalit voices. Here are some readings/movements that have been educational to me, given my own intellectual interests and political commitments.

Safai Karamchari Andolan is a Dalit-led organisation that works to end manual scavenging, a caste-based occupation safaikarmachariandolan.org/crisis