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Indian Supreme Court’s ban on the use of caste in politics is admirable, but its practicality needs to be questioned.
From: 101 East
India’s Dalit Revolution
We go inside the Dalit protest movement threatening to end centuries of repression and shake India’s social structure.
3 Mar 2017
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