This illustrates two points, one that the Dalit movement is not simply a caste based ‘vote bank’ political gimmick, it is a dynamic self-awakening by a marginalized group to stake their claims to a society’s resources. Second, it shows how the general attitude of the upper caste Hindus has morphed from oppression to ignorance, they fail to recognize that the Dalit identity is very real and distinct from that of the twice-born upper castes.
Vikram Garg discusses a paper by B. Narayan of the G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad, on how Dalits of today view the Indian nation .
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