List of Dalits

Following is a list of notable Dalit people organised by profession, field, or focus.

Academics

B.R. Ambedkar, economist and reformer
Mata Prasad, Former Chairman of Union Public Service Commission
Narendra Jadhav, economist, writer and educationist[1]
Satyendra Murli, researcher, media pedagogue and journalist.[2][3]

Cinema and television

Chirag Paswan, actor and politician.[4][5]
Tun Tun, actress and comedian of Hindi cinema.[6]
Pa. Ranjith, director and filmmaker.[7]
Silk Smitha, actress.[8]
Shailendra
Mari selvaraj, director.

Activists

Nawab Satpal Tanwar Bhim Sena chief (founder and national president of Bhim Sena)
Gopal Baba Walangkar[9]
Immanuvel Sekaran[10]
Anand Teltumbde[11]
Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan, co-founder and national president of Bhim Army[12]

Politicians

Ramnath Kovind, President of India
Ashok Tanwar,[13] President of Haryana Congress, former Member of Parliament.
Jagjivan Ram, Dalit leader, Indian freedom fighter and founder of Depressed Class Association.[14][15][16]
Kanshi Ram, founder of Bahujan Samaj Party and a Dalit Leader.[17]
B. Shyam Sunder, founder of Bharatiya Bhim Sena[18]
Jogendra Nath Mandal,[19] one of the central figures in creation of the state of Pakistan; later a government minister
Thol. Thirumavalavan, president of the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi, 2 times Member of Parliament and current MP.
Ram Vilas Paswan, 8 times Member of Parliament and many times Minister in Central Government. Founder and President of Lok Janshakti Party.[20]
Sushilkumar Shinde, Chief Minister Of Maharashtra and Union Minister of Home Affairs (India).[21]
Damodaram Sanjivayya, 2nd Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.[22]
Meira Kumar, Speaker of Lok Sabha.[23]
Baleshwar Ram, Union Minister, Government of India.
Ram Sundar Das, Chief Minister, Bihar.
Thawar Chand Gehlot, minister of social justice and empowerment
Bhola Paswan Shastri, Chief Minister of Bihar
Jagannath Pahadia, Chief Minister of Rajasthan
Mayawati, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and President of the Bahujan Samaj Party
G. Parameshwara, Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka
Jitan Ram Manjhi, Chief Minister of Bihar
K. R. Narayanan, Vice president of India and President Of India
Kadiyam Srihari, Deputy Chief Minister of Telngana
K. Narayana Swamy, Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
Shripad Amrit Dange, President Of Communist party of India
Bangaru Laxman, President of Bhartiy Janta Party
D. Raja, General Secretary Of The Communist Party of India
Suraj Bhan, Deputy Speaker Of Lok Sabha, Governor of Himachal Pradesh and UP, Bihar
Mata Prasad, Former Governor of Arunachal Pradesh.
A. Rasa, Former Central Minister, 5 times MP and Deputy General Secretary of DMK.

Literature

Baburao Bagul, Marathi writer
Daya Pawar, Padma Shri awarded Marathi writer and poet
Heera Dom, Bhojpuri poet
Namdeo Dhasal, Marathi poet and writer from Maharashtra[24]
Neerav Patel (1950–2019)
Om Prakash Valmiki, Hindi poet and writer

Music

Religion and reform

Gallela Prasad, fourth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuddapah, in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India[26]
Marampudi Joji, third Archbishop of Hyderabad[27]
Bhagu, devotee of Rama[28]
Chokhamela
Mata Amritanandamayi

Sports

Vithal Palwankar, cricketer[29]
Vinod Kambli, cricketer
Palwankar Baloo, cricketer and politician
Eknath Solkar, cricketer
Dodda Ganesh, cricketer
Karsan Ghavri, cricketer

References

"Dalit Dreams". Times of India. 16 January 2004. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
"'A largely Upper-caste Media is Not Good for India's Democracy'". The Wire. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
"Dalits in media feel the sting of caste discrimination". Firstpost. 2013-08-13. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
"Is the BJP Using Chirag Paswan to Reduce Nitish Kumar's Clout in Bihar?". The Wire. Retrieved 2020-08-05.
Son of the Dalit leader and founderand president of Ram Vilas Paswan.
चैहान, Jitesh Singh Chauhan जीतेश सिंह (2015-02-01). "Dalits in Indian cinema". Forward Press. Retrieved 2020-09-05.
चैहान, Jitesh Singh Chauhan जीतेश सिंह (2015-02-01). "Dalits in Indian cinema". Indian Express. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
चैहान, Jitesh Singh Chauhan जीतेश सिंह (2015-02-01). "Silk Smitha Death Anniversary: Here are the Five Best Movies of the Actress". News18. Retrieved 2016-07-29.
Zelliot, Eleanor (2010). "India's Dalits: Racism and Contemporary Change". Global Dialogue. 12 (2). Archived from the original on 2013-04-30.
"Freedom fighter, Dalit icon: Remembering Tamil Nadu's Immanuel Sekaran". 11 September 2016.
"Anand Teltumbde: Cards and letters for jailed India scholar as he turns 70". 1 September 2020.
"Anti-CAA protests: Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad taken into police custody". 21 December 2019.
"Ashok Tanwar: Keeping promises is the biggest task". GulfNews.com. 6 November 2010. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
"Jagjivan Ram". www.spiegel.de. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
The Dalit who was not allowed to sit with the Upper Castes had passed Matriculation from Benaras Hindu University. From Untouchables "Chamars" to Minister of India. Jagjivan Ram, the Dalit Leader of India ISBN 81-7041-496-2 by S.R, Bakshi.
Bakshi, S. R. (1992-01-01). Jagivan Ram: The Harijan Leader. South Asia Books. ISBN 978-81-7041-496-4.
"Kejriwal to visit BSP founder Kanshi Ram's family". Hindustan Times. 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
Hegde, Sanjay (14 April 2015). "There were some Dalit leaders like B. Shyam Sunder, who vociferously said: "We are not Hindus, we have nothing to do with the Hindu caste system, yet we have been included among them by them and for them."". The Hindu. Retrieved 6 September 2015.
"Dalits' dream of Pakistan". DAWN.COM. 9 May 2016.
"'Ram Vilas Dalit face wherever you go, Jitan Ram Manjhi can be Mahadalit face'". The Indian Express. 2015-07-29. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
Kumar, Krishna (August 5, 2012). "Family retainer with Dalit card". India Today. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
Kumar, Krishna (August 5, 2012). "Former Chief Minister Damodaram Sanjivayya's Birth Anniversary Celebrated". Indian Express.
Kumar, Krishna (August 5, 2012). "Congress may project Meira Kumar as Bihar CM candidate". Deccan Herald.
"Kamatipura (poem)". www.poetryinternationalweb.net. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
Samos, Sumeet (2017-10-22). "Rapper Sumeet Samos Narrates A Short Story of Caste Based Institutional Discrimination In JNU - The Companion". The Companion. Retrieved 2018-08-12.
"Church hierarchy accused of ignoring attack on Dalit bishop". ucanews.com.
"India's First Dalit Archbishop Holds 'No Grudge' Over Predecessor's Attack". ChristianityToday.com.
Zelliot, Eleanor (2008). "Cokhamela, His Family and the Marathi Tradition". In Aktor, Mikael (ed.). From Stigma to Assertion: Untouchability, Identity & Politics in Early & Modern India. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. p. 86. ISBN 9788763507752.
Guha, Ramachandra (2007). "The Heroic Struggles of the Palwankar Brothers". In Menon, Dilip K. (ed.). Cultural History of Modern India. Bergahn Books.

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[jadhav-1] "Dalit Dreams". Times of India. 16 January 2004. Retrieved 14 September 2016.

[2] "'A largely Upper-caste Media is Not Good for India's Democracy'". The Wire. Retrieved 2020-09-05.

[3] "Dalits in media feel the sting of caste discrimination". Firstpost. 2013-08-13. Retrieved 2020-09-05.

[4] "Is the BJP Using Chirag Paswan to Reduce Nitish Kumar's Clout in Bihar?". The Wire. Retrieved 2020-08-05.

[5] Son of the Dalit leader and founderand president of Ram Vilas Paswan.

[6] चैहान, Jitesh Singh Chauhan जीतेश सिंह (2015-02-01). "Dalits in Indian cinema". Forward Press. Retrieved 2020-09-05.

[7] चैहान, Jitesh Singh Chauhan जीतेश सिंह (2015-02-01). "Dalits in Indian cinema". Indian Express. Retrieved 2016-07-29.

[8] चैहान, Jitesh Singh Chauhan जीतेश सिंह (2015-02-01). "Silk Smitha Death Anniversary: Here are the Five Best Movies of the Actress". News18. Retrieved 2016-07-29.

[9] Zelliot, Eleanor (2010). "India's Dalits: Racism and Contemporary Change". Global Dialogue. 12 (2). Archived from the original on 2013-04-30.

[10] "Freedom fighter, Dalit icon: Remembering Tamil Nadu's Immanuel Sekaran". 11 September 2016.

[11] "Anand Teltumbde: Cards and letters for jailed India scholar as he turns 70". 1 September 2020.

[12] "Anti-CAA protests: Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad taken into police custody". 21 December 2019.

[13] "Ashok Tanwar: Keeping promises is the biggest task". GulfNews.com. 6 November 2010. Retrieved 2017-08-04.

[14] "Jagjivan Ram". www.spiegel.de. Retrieved 2020-08-04.

[15] The Dalit who was not allowed to sit with the Upper Castes had passed Matriculation from Benaras Hindu University. From Untouchables "Chamars" to Minister of India. Jagjivan Ram, the Dalit Leader of India ISBN 81-7041-496-2 by S.R, Bakshi.

[16] Bakshi, S. R. (1992-01-01). Jagivan Ram: The Harijan Leader. South Asia Books. ISBN 978-81-7041-496-4.

[17] "Kejriwal to visit BSP founder Kanshi Ram's family". Hindustan Times. 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2020-08-04.

[Hegde_2015-18] Hegde, Sanjay (14 April 2015). "There were some Dalit leaders like B. Shyam Sunder, who vociferously said: "We are not Hindus, we have nothing to do with the Hindu caste system, yet we have been included among them by them and for them."". The Hindu. Retrieved 6 September 2015.

[19] "Dalits' dream of Pakistan". DAWN.COM. 9 May 2016.

[20] "'Ram Vilas Dalit face wherever you go, Jitan Ram Manjhi can be Mahadalit face'". The Indian Express. 2015-07-29. Retrieved 2020-08-04.

[21] Kumar, Krishna (August 5, 2012). "Family retainer with Dalit card". India Today. Retrieved 2020-08-04.

[22] Kumar, Krishna (August 5, 2012). "Former Chief Minister Damodaram Sanjivayya's Birth Anniversary Celebrated". Indian Express.

[23] Kumar, Krishna (August 5, 2012). "Congress may project Meira Kumar as Bihar CM candidate". Deccan Herald.

[24] "Kamatipura (poem)". www.poetryinternationalweb.net. Retrieved 2017-07-09.

[25] Samos, Sumeet (2017-10-22). "Rapper Sumeet Samos Narrates A Short Story of Caste Based Institutional Discrimination In JNU - The Companion". The Companion. Retrieved 2018-08-12.

[26] "Church hierarchy accused of ignoring attack on Dalit bishop". ucanews.com.

[27] "India's First Dalit Archbishop Holds 'No Grudge' Over Predecessor's Attack". ChristianityToday.com.

[28] Zelliot, Eleanor (2008). "Cokhamela, His Family and the Marathi Tradition". In Aktor, Mikael (ed.). From Stigma to Assertion: Untouchability, Identity & Politics in Early & Modern India. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. p. 86. ISBN 9788763507752.

[29] Guha, Ramachandra (2007). "The Heroic Struggles of the Palwankar Brothers". In Menon, Dilip K. (ed.). Cultural History of Modern India. Bergahn Books.