Other Forms of Dwelling: A Dalit – Feminist Perspective

“Other Forms of Dwelling: A Dalit – Feminist Perspective,” an Outcome archive entry by Shrutika Lakshmi. The entry belongs to the jcrt collection and connects readers to scholarship, public history, and organizing around the Doctrine of Discovery, Christian domination, Indigenous sovereignty, law, religion, land, memory, and accountability.

In brief, it addresses Lakshmi frames Dalit feminist values alongside Indigenous frameworks to show alternative forms of dwelling, relation, and resistance beyond colonial modernity.. For readers arriving from the main Doctrine of Discovery site, this post functions as a pointer rather than a replacement for the full Outcome record. The canonical page preserves the complete context, metadata, author information, citation links, media, and neighboring materials in the archive.

The source text highlights terms and contexts including This paper is an attempt to bring together different values from different socio cultural contexts together with an intention to weave a meaningful narrative. For this reason, this paper will focus on the ‘Indigenous Values’ as explained by Philip Arnold in his book The Urgency of Indigenous Values as a basic structural framework to think about the Dalit women of the Indian subcontinent in consonance with these values and urgency. Similar to the indigenous values are the values lived and experienced by these Dalit women who help us to explore the different frameworks of existing in this shared world. To be precise, this paper is an earnest attempt to talk about the other ways. Read the canonical Outcome page for the complete entry.

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