My grandfather had dropped Nidaniya—a typically ‘Bhangi’ last name—in his twenties, perhaps around the time he was forced down from the horse he was riding during his wedding procession at sword-point by caste Hindus in Jaipur. Seventy years later, little seems to have changed as caste Hindus still humiliate Dalit grooms who display any upper-caste symbols of Hindu wedding revelry like decorated turbans
