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Write short notes with a sociological perspective: Different forms of Dalit assertion.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Social Movements in Modern India

Assertion differs from protest: protest demands redress, assertion publicly performs an identity the social order denies. Ghanshyam Shah (Social Movements in India, 1990) notes there has never been a single Dalit movement; what runs through the many is a common claim to equality, self-dignity and the end of untouchability. Its forms are plural and cumulative.

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  • Ritual and symbolic assertion
  • Religious exit
  • Cultural and literary assertion
  • Political and electoral assertion
  • Legal and constitutional assertion
  • Campus, digital and economic assertion
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion

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