![]() ![]() ![]() Lowered castes or oppressed castes comprising OBC, SC and ST students tend to experience a hostile campus climate in higher education institutions. ![]() It is evident that caste hierarchies are pervasive in elite institutions such as IITs IIMs, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), All India Institute Of Medical Science (AIIMS) and other central universities. The prevailing caste discrimination and exclusionary practices in Indian academia are rooted in the prejudices of the existing social order in Indian society. Yet, Dalit and Adivasi students including Dr Payal Tadvi and more recently, Darshan Solanki, continue to lose their lives to alleged casteism in Indian higher education institutions. Since Dalit PhD scholar Rohith Vemula’s death by suicide at UoH in 2016, there have been demands for a law called Rohith Vemula Act, to address this discrimination. The Union government recently revealed that over 19,000 SC, ST and OBC students had dropped out of all central universities, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) between 20. Over the years, many students and faculty members have highlighted caste discrimination in Indian academia, based on statistics and lived experience. ![]()
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