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词条 Dalit Mahila Samiti
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Dalit Mahila Samiti (DMS, and also known as Dalit Women's Association) is an organization for Dalit women in Uttar Pradesh. The group provides leadership opportunities and ways for women to communicate their issues with one another.

About

The Dalit Mahila Samiti (DMS) was formally organized in 2002 or 2004 and is supported by Vanagana, a feminist non-governmental organization.[1]{{Sfn|Andharia|Anandi Collective|2008|p=2-3}} However, it was first organized as early as 1992 in order to mobilize Dalit women.[2] It is based in the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP).{{Sfn|Andharia|Anandi Collective|2008|p=2}} The group has seven different clusters in two sub-regions of the Chitrakoot District.{{Sfn|Andharia|Anandi Collective|2008|p=3}} Men may join the women's group as sahayogi, or supporters, and there is a yearly membership fee for women.{{Sfn|Andharia|Anandi Collective|2008|p=3}} Members of the group receive a badge and information about Dalit leaders.{{Sfn|Andharia|Anandi Collective|2008|p=3-4}}

DMS began to create dialogues among women in various communities in UP which lead to some women taking on leadership positions.{{Sfn|Andharia|Anandi Collective|2008|p=7}} Each village selects two women to represent the local DMS chapter at the cluster level.{{Sfn|Andharia|Anandi Collective|2008|p=8}} Clusters are organized to have presidents, treasurers and secretaries who meet once a month.{{Sfn|Andharia|Anandi Collective|2008|p=8}}

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1. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TEYlDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA225&ots=S-Gzb4a9XW&dq=%22Dalit%20Mahila%20Samiti%22&pg=PA223#v=onepage&q=%22Dalit%20Mahila%20Samiti%22&f=false|title=Dalit Women: Vanguard of an Alternative Politics in India|last=Govinda|first=Radhika|date=2017-05-18|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781351797191|editor-last=Anandhi|editor-first=S.|location=New York|pages=223|language=en|chapter=Different Dalit Women Speak Differently: Unravelling, through an intersectional lens, narratives of agency and activism form everyday life in rural Uttar Pradesh|editor-last2=Kapadia|editor-first2=Karin}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/politics/bundelkhands-dalit-women-rally-against-government-negligence|title=Bundelkhand's Dalit Women Rally Against Government Negligence|last=Dixit|first=Neha|date=15 February 2017|website=The Wire|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-08-18}}

Sources

  • {{Cite book|url=https://www.awid.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/changing_their_world_-_dalit_womens_movement_in_india.pdf|title=The Dalit Women's Movement in India: Dalit Mahila Samiti|last=Andharia|first=Jahnvi|last2=Anandi Collective|publisher=Association for Women's Rights in Development|year=2008|isbn=|editor-last=Batliwala|editor-first=Srilatha|location=Toronto|pages=|ref=harv}}
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