Seenarine, Moses

About the author: Dr. Moses Seenarine is a graduate of Columbia University and a former Assistant Professor of Hunter College, City University of New York. He is the author of several articles on gender and caste, including “Recasting Indian Women in Colonial Guiana: Gender, Labor and Caste in the Lives of Free and Indentured Laborers.” He has taught at Teachers College, Columbia University, Suffolk Community College, State University of New York, and at several inner-city high schools.

Education and Empowerment Among Dalit (untouchable) Women in India

2004 0-7734-6407-7
This book explores the problems of how caste and gender issues are related to the education and empowerment of rural Dalit women in India. The key focus is on the presentation of Dalit female voices regarding their educational experiences. Specifically, this study explores the nature and role of education and its relationship to empowerment among thirty-three poor, rural Dalit women and girls who volunteered to become involved with an explicit women’s empowerment project, the Mahila Samakhya program in Karnataka (MSK) during the years 1994 to 1995. This book will be of interest to practitioners in the fields of development: sociology, cultural studies and education; caste, gender, post-modern and subaltern academics and students, the general public and policy makers in India; Dalits and Dalit women in particular.