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What is the Dalit Movement? Examine the issues highlighted by it.

  • UPSC 2013
  • 20 marks
  • Social Movements in Modern India

The Dalit movement is the collective mobilisation of the castes formerly treated as untouchable — officially Scheduled Castes — against ritual stigma, economic dependence and political exclusion, conducted in the name of a self-chosen identity. Dalit means "broken" or "ground down"; used by Jyotirao Phule and revived by the Dalit Panthers, it replaced Harijan and…

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