Earthquakes and Dalit victims

Natural disasters tend to hurt minorities and poorer sections of society more.

On October 14, 2015, following the deadly 2015 Gorkha Earthquakes, American professors Mary Cameron and Steve Folmar and I published a short but unprecedented article in the academic journal Cultural Anthropology , titled “Digging for Dalits”. The very first lines of the article stated our critical interest there: “Where can we find Dalits in discussions of the earthquakes? An apt metaphor would be ‘under the rubble’”.