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Mainstream, VOL LVI No 40 New Delhi September 22, 2018

Do Not Say ’Dalit’, For It Is Too Real

Tuesday 25 September 2018, by Badri Raina

It is no less than a pyrrhic historical atrocity to want to eliminate the reality of a whole section of living people by refusing them the right to call themselves what they wish.

It is understandable that if and when asked, any court in the land would say official records should use the nomenclature