The Content and Relevance of Different types of Academic Dalit Knowledge in India and Beyond

Paper Abstract: The past decades academic discourses have been developed in India, stemming from the Dalit emancipation movement. They go by the container term of "Dalit Knowledge", and form typical examples of what is known to be "standpoint theory". Different types of Dalit Knowledge can be identified, such as "Dalit Studies", "Dalit Feminism" and "Critical Dalit Theory". The PhD research Jolanda is working on, is based on three questions: 
1. which different types of Dalit Knowledge have been formulated in India and what do they entail? 
2. what relevance do they have within India, in surrounding countries such as Nepal and Sri Lanka
3. what relevance do they have and should they have for academia worldwide  

For this paper, Jolanda suggests to work out how Dalit Knowledge was formulated stemming from the emancipation movements. She will use the concept of "standpoint theory" to eleborate on this type of academic knowledge. She will work out various types within Dalit Knowledge, such as "Dalit Feminism", "Dalit Studies" and "Critical Caste Theory". Following that she will work out the set up of her research, comparing the far advanced forms of Dalit knowledge in India to the scene in Nepal and Sri Lanka, and of diaspora countries UK and US. And what relevance does this knowledge production have in the global north, for discourses like Gender & Diversity Studies and Postcolonial Studies. 
Jolanda suggests to address the background of how the questions of her PhD came about. This also involves the positionality of the researcher herself.