![]() Since then, India has had a Dalit President and a powerful woman Dalit Chief Minister of a state. The Indian constitution, adopted in 1950, acknowledged in an enlightened moment that the historically disadvantaged Dalits needed special support to advance socially and economically, and then set out to provide it. ![]() One truth about caste, however, is undeniable: in all its manifestations through history it has been the name for a monstrous and irredeemable system of social hierarchy and oppression based on horrific notions of ritual pollution and exclusion. These, though, are only partial truths, for history is replete with examples of the changeability of caste, and in practice there are thousands of castes. ![]()
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