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Discuss the social factors responsible for the emergence of Dalit consciousness in India. What have been the social consequences of this phenomenon?

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  • Caste System

Dalit consciousness is the recognition, by those outside the varna order, that their condition is socially produced and therefore reversible. It arose not from suffering, which was ancient, but from changes that gave the oppressed literacy, mobility, numbers and a vocabulary of rights.

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