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Analyse various trends in Dalit Movements in various parts of post-independent India.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Caste and Ethnicity after 1947

Dalit movements after 1947 did not follow one national script — they took markedly different forms depending on regional caste structures, leadership and political opportunity.

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  • Maharashtra — The Ambedkarite Heartland and Radical Cultural Assertion
  • Uttar Pradesh — Bahujan Consolidation and Electoral Power
  • Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh — Absorption into Anti-Brahmin, Dravidian Politics
  • Punjab and North India — Conversion and Adi Dharm
  • Kerala and Eastern India — Reform-Movement Legacies
  • Comparative Assessment

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