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Elaborate various forms of Dalit assertions in contemporary India? What are its implications on the Indian political system?

  • UPSC 2018
  • 20 marks
  • Politics and Society in India

Assertion differs from protest: it is the sustained public performance of equality by a group that once had to ask for it. Contemporary Dalit assertion runs simultaneously through ballots, statues, books, faith, capital, courts and screens — and because it runs through all of them at once, it has reorganised the Indian party system rather…

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