Dalits, the downtrodden sections of our society are a unique Indian entity that we do not find in any other country or nation in the world. The Dalits are a par

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Papers presented at the Symposium on 'Dalit Theology in the Twenty-first Century', held at Calcutta in January 2008.

The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography trace the strategies through which Dalits have been marginalized as well as the ways Dali