They unconditionally submit to the casteist order, adopting its values, morals, standards of speaking, beauty, logos of assimilation, consumption, food and social habits. Their dual image, which is neither true nor original, puts them in an awkward position; they unquestionably buy into Brahminical myths as the ideal characteristics of gaining personhood. However, they are refused by the Brahminical class that still sees the aspiring Dalit middle class as Untouchables. This creates tremendous risk for their social survival and so they develop what E. Franklin Frazier calls a ‘considerable
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