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Flames In The Shadows - The Marathwada Riots And The Struggle For Dalit Liberation, Paroma Soni
Flames In The Shadows - The Marathwada Riots And The Struggle For Dalit Liberation, Paroma Soni
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From July to September 1978, the Marathwada region experienced intense levels of violence following the decision to rename Marathwada University into Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar University. In a crushing display of upper-caste power, thousands of dalits were killed, raped and made to flee their homes. Deep feelings of uncertainty and fear lingered on for several months after. The question of why a matter so ostensibly trivial as renaming a university incited so much violence is a perplexing one. It cannot be answered by merely reducing the violence to “an imposition of high caste authority.” The rise of dalit self-assertion movements – …