Dalit Nationalism has the rightful potential to demand equality on its own terms and without frugal negotiations. This would set an uncompromising and non-co-opting tone of liberation. There are no national-level political calls for reclaiming Dalit land—land exclusively set aside for Dalits in rural and urban areas for the uprooted Dalit community—which is in tune with Ambedkar’s thesis of separate settlement.
