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“Dalit Movements for empowerment in independent India have essentially been for carving out political space through electoral politics.” Discuss.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Caste and Ethnicity after 1947

Dalit empowerment after 1947 cannot be read through a single lens, though electoral politics has been its most visible strand.

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  • The Electoral Strand — Carving Out Political Space
  • The Non-Electoral, Social-Cultural Strand
  • Assessing the Balance

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