Women and Dalits are non-citizens, non-people as far as the Indian state is concerned. Hathras is not only about sexual violence against a Dalit woman, it is a battle for the citizenship rights of 20 percent of India’s population. Here’s why.

The Union Budget, presented by Interim Finance Minister Piyush Goyal just days ago, has largely ignored women. However, this is the first time that the Women and Child Development ministry has separately allocated a set budget for Dalit and Adivasi women. While the process of Gender budgeting was introduced in 2005-06 in the form of […]