![How India deludes itself that caste discrimination is dead](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tt2xjNsIJf6TTzHm2KzLIQQhGk0v_D3pdX68U1cBGtca8CAN30KEv0h6pGFHiZTFrl8LUIbSnuOmA_dkV69DLzOLo5QcX5lqi-YWyjhchiLzJ2JyUiX8Tl-XEBTqBVrSRp-8x8umA2kPXXZqcgDSVXJ6rxXEH4O7bp1ViyVWJhO1_WeOKWF8WkWc0=s0-d)
In October 2016, a young man walked into a flour mill in Uttarakhand, a state of northern India where the mist-wrapped mountains of the outer Himalayas begin. He was Dalit (Sanskrit for broken, scattered, downtrodden), a relatively recent collective identity claimed by communities across the nation that are considered untouchable in the caste system.
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