Abstract
My article will look at the role played by civil society, educational institutions etc in maintaining inequality based on caste. It will try to locate the change that has come up in the constitution of civil society with the arrival of cyberspace on the one hand and the greater visibility of Dalit identity politics on the other. Focusing on the workings of the portal called Round Table Indw and the recent debate surrounding the essay “The Doctor And The Saint” by Arundhati Roy, I shall attempt to delineate the way this debate is attempting to challenge the power‐knowledge‐representation nexus and also ironically moving towards a ghettoisation of the Ambedkarite struggle.
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