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How did the factionalised Dalit leadership in Hyderabad undergo a period of intense reorganization between 1948 and 1953?

  • UPSC 2023
  • Caste and Ethnicity after 1947

Hyderabad State's Dalit politics before Operation Polo (September 1948) was split between a pro-Nizam faction and an Ambedkarite faction, and the trauma of the Nizam's fall forced a realignment of both by the time of the first general elections.

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  • The Pre-1948 Split: Monarchists versus Ambedkarites
  • The Rupture: Operation Polo and Its Aftermath (1948)
  • Reorganization, 1949-53

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