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The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India
Rao, Anupama. The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
Why this matters here
Anupama Rao examines the historical making of Dalit political identity and representation in modern India. The chapter invokes that scholarship to contextualize the stakes of separate electorates and the Poona Pact, distinct from Ambedkar's own later defense of political safeguards.
