DALIT

Lifting the veil on the Indian Caste System

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Backward Caste

Castes which are not untouchables but are higher in status than Dalits. These can range from castes which are the major dominant castes in the Indian countryside to castes which may be financially less better off than some Dalits.
Basava

Founder of the Virashaiva or Lingayata sect c.1106- c.1167.
Bhakti

Piety,personal devotion or worship offered to a divinity often via a guru.
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Contradiction between Politics and Equality

On 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality....We must remove this contradiction at the earliest else those who suffer from inequality will blow up the structure of political democracy.

Dr B R Ambedkar