Gujarat Dalit protests: Three bastis, one united voice

WHEN Girish Parmar, a Dalit businessman from Ahmedabad, approached a real estate developer to purchase a house in Vastral, an area dominated by Patidars, the first question he faced was this: ?Tell me your caste.?
?When I told him that I am a Dalit, he told me I would have to look for a house elsewhere. But his reaction did not come as a shock because I face similar situations daily,? said Parmar.
This is just one face of the Dalit backlash that has rattled Gujarat?s BJP government ? a groundswell of anger triggered by the beating and stripping on July 11 of a group of Dalit youths at Una by ?gau rakshaks? for skinning dead cattle.
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