In Focus-Parley Are legal guarantees insufficient in abolishing untouchability?

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Oct 8, 202645:06News & Politics

In August this year, the performance of a "purification" ritual by certain Hindu groups in Uttarakhand, at the location where Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, who belongs to a Dalit community, addressed a public ra...

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