Submit : Dalits can demand equality in socio-religious beliefs,
not economic equality Dr. Ambedkar, the ultimate icon for
Dalits, had commented that the political equality is meaningless
without social and economic equalities.  The Noble laureate in
literature, V S Naipual wrote on his Facebook page: "The world
is what it is; men who are nothing who allow themselves to
become nothing, have no place in it." Mr. Naipaul has also
written in his famous book, India: A Million Mutinies Now: “To
awaken to history was to cease to live instinctively. It was to
begin to see oneself and one’s group the way the outside world
saw one, and it was to know a kind of rage. India was now full
of rage. There had been a general awakening.”  The four times UP
Chief Minister, and a major Dalit icon at present, Mayawati,
used to shout slogans like this in '90s: ‘Tilak, taraju aur
talwar maro inko joote char’, meaning that let all twice born as
per Hindu laws be damned. Sure, she and her party no longer
utter such a jibe against the