This article examines the Dalit movements and transition in the way of protest of Dalits for their economic, political, social and legal rights. India’s deprived sections are known as Dalits and are the most marginalized groups in India. They had always raised their voices and protested movements in one or another way against the inequality and discrimination they have faced. This article is a literary survey and narrates the history of the Dalit movement in Uttar Pradesh till the contemporary period. The article is divided into three parts in three different eras, that is, their emancipation in medieval history and before the post-colonial period, then the Dalit movement in the post-colonial period, and after independence and rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party, and the last Dalit movement in the contemporary period.
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