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Hindutva and the Dalit Question, Current affairs, NewAgeIslam.com


Current affairs
18 Aug 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com

Hindutva and the Dalit Question


By Bhanwar Meghvanshi
(Translated from Hindi by Yoginder Sikand, NewAgeIslam.com)
Of late, the RSS has been making a tremendous hue-and-cry about what it calls the ‘social assimilation’ (samarasta) of the various castes. The curious fact, however, is that it has no intention whatsoever of promoting the genuine ‘assimilation’ of, leave alone equality between, the various castes. A clear indication of its attitude to the caste question is that from the very beginning it has been strongly opposed to reservations or any other form of protective discrimination for Dalits, Adviasis, OBCs and religious minorities.

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