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Examine the role of protest movements in changing the status of Dalits in India.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Politics and Society

Status, in Max Weber's sense, is social honour, and it varies independently of class and party. Dalit status was fixed by ritual disability, the purity-pollution hierarchy at the centre of Louis Dumont's Homo Hierarchicus (1966). A century and a half of protest has destroyed that hierarchy's legitimacy and opened political power to Dalits; it has…

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