In one of the essays, ‘The American Experience of B R Ambedkar’ included in her book, From Untouchable to Dalit, Eleanor Zelliot writes: “A direct comparison between the Negroes of America and Untouchables of India does not appear in Ambedkar’s writings.” She may be right, in a way, but Ambedkar does make comparison between slaves and untouchables, cites parallel cases and also shows how Hindus...

This communication presents a model structure for the flotation recovery of middling particles (10–90% liberation). Fourteen datasets from literature were studied (galena flotation), which involved different systems and operating conditions. The responses allowed flexibility to be evaluated under range profiles. modelling results showed that galena can characterized by interaction between linea...

Most feminist theorists over the last forty years have held that a basic tenet of feminism is that women as a group are oppressed. The concept of oppression has never had a very broad meaning in liberal discourse, however, and with the rise of neo-liberalism since 1980 it has even less currency in public debate. This article argues that, while we may still believe women are oppressed, for pragm...

rought up in a world whose culture and religion are rooted in the civilizations of the eastern crescent of the Mediterranean Sea, one is led to believe that the progress made in overcoming the prejudice that Peter Singer calls speciesism is of relatively recent development. But this stems from the limitations of the Western background; animal liberation has been known and widely practiced in Fa...