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    Dalit (English: /ˈdælɪt/ from Sanskrit: दलित meaning "broken/scattered") is a term used for untouchables and outcasts, who represented the lowest stratum...
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  • Dalit literature is a genre of Indian writing that focuses on the lives, experiences, and struggles of the Dalit community over centuries, in relation...
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  • The dalit is a type of short Filipino poem, consisting of four lines with eight syllables each. There is a controversy regarding its origin. One school...
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  • The Dalit Panthers was a social organisation that seeks to combat caste discrimination. It was led by a group of Mahar writers and poets, including Raja...
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    Party; abbr. VCK), formerly known as the Dalit Panthers of India or the Dalit Panthers Iyyakkam (transl. Dalit Panthers Movement; abbr. DPI), is an Indian...
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  • caste violence also known as the Mirchpur Dalit killings was an incident of violence against the Balmiki Dalits by upper caste Jat villagers in the village...
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  • Dalit music or Bahujan music is music created, produced, or inspired by Bahujans and Dalits, people often discriminated against on the basis of caste...
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    Dalit theology is a branch of Christian theology that emerged among the Dalit caste in the Indian subcontinent in the 1980s. It shares a number of themes...
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  • This is a list of notable Dalit individuals, categorized by their contributions across various fields and professions. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, economist and...
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  • The term Dalit Christian or Christian Dalit is used to describe those who have converted to Christianity from other forms of religion in the Indian subcontinent...
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    The Dalit Buddhist movement (also known as the Neo-Buddhist movement, Buddhist movement for Dalits, Ambedkarite Buddhist movement and Modern Buddhist movement)...
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  • Dalit Kisan Dal (Dalit Peasants Party), is a political party in Punjab, India. The party was formed as a splinter group from Lok Bhalai Party 2001, when...
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  • were felled, highways blocked and damaged and more than 1400 houses of the Dalit community burned down. The police under the M G Ramchandran (MGR) led AIADMK...
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  • com/article/opinion/columns/maharashtra-khairlanji-dalit-rape-murder-una-vemula-caste-system-discrimination-3055056/ "Dalit blood on village square". Frontline. Retrieved...
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    Dalit League is also known as Indian Union Dalit League (IUDL) Indian Political Party and Caste wing of the Indian Union Muslim League in Kerala, India...
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  • Pichhda, Dalit, and Muslim (PDM) is a political alliance forged between the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and the Apna Dal (Kamerawadi)...
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    sometimes referred to as Dalit, meaning "broken" or "dispersed" for the untouchables. The term having been popularised by the Dalit leader B. R. Ambedkar...
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  • Dalit Ezhilmalai (24 June 1945 – 6 May 2020) was an Indian union minister. He was a leader of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK), and was Union Minister...
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    Dalits in Bihar are a social group composed of many Scheduled Castes, placed at the bottom of the "caste-based social order". The Dalits also include some...
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  • Koduram Dalit (5 March 1910 - 28 September 1967) was an Indian poet in Hindi and Chhattisgarhi languages. Ha Pradesh. ukhaay are two of his popular poem...
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  • Dalit Muslim is used to refer to Muslims in the Dalit group. Untouchables, also called Dalits, who have converted to Islam. In theory, converting to Islam...
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    Dalit feminism is a feminist perspective that includes questioning caste and gender roles among the Dalit population and within feminism and the larger...
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    Jignesh Mevani (category Dalit activists)
    of the Rashtriya Dalit Adhikar Manch (RDAM). Jignesh Mevani was born on 11 December 1980 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat to a family of Dalits from the village...
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  • coinciding with Independence Day, to mixed reviews from critics. Vedaa Berwa, a Dalit law student, lives with her family in Barmer, Rajasthan, where Jitendar...
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  • Dalit Subbaiah (aka Lenin; born Pichai; October 24, 1952– February 14, 2022) was an Indian singer, writer, lyricist, and poet known for his contributions...
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  • invitation or loud declaration. The 1818 Battle of Koregaon is of importance for Dalits. On 1 January 1818, 834 troops of the East India Company's Bombay Presidency...
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  • Pradesh on 17 July 1985, where brutality by Kamma landlords against Madigas (Dalits) resulted in the killing of six Madigas and grievous injuries to many others...
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    Chandrasekharan NDA 0 / 20 0 / 9 0 / 140 Janadhipathya Rashtriya Sabha JRS Dalit rights Adivasi rights 2016 C. K. Janu C. K. Janu NDA 0 / 20 0 / 9 0 / 140...
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    Plan Dalet (redirect from Plan dalit)
    Plan Dalet (Hebrew: תוכנית ד', Tokhnit dalet "Plan D") was a Zionist military plan executed during the 1948 Palestine war for the conquest of territory...
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    Kanshi Ram (category Dalit politicians)
    bottom of the caste system in India. Towards this end, Kanshi Ram founded Dalit Shoshit Samaj Sangharsh Samiti (DS-4), the All India Backwards (SC/ST/OBC)...
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