The high caste people’s attempts to suppress Dalit voices further awakened and organised Dalits. A huge rally was staged at Bhadravati, and thousands of people attended. The incident had become a symbol of Dalit oppression.
Valmiki describes how he and other Dalit employees of the Ordnance Factory Chandrapur, held rallies to oppose the violence being inflicted on Dalits by anti-reservation high caste protesters.ĭalits protested collectively when a Brahmin teacher asked his students to rip off the lesson on Ambedkar: “Rallies and protest meetings began all over Vidarbha as soon as the story came out. Dalits’ protest against the high caste is reflected in their unyielding refusal to work without wages. Although, majority of the masses in the basti were illiterate, but they were conscious and powerful enough to oppose their exploitation. Joothan is not merely a register of Dalit suffering and haplessness, it notes several instances of both individual and collective resistance by Dalits.
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