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Dalit Panthers
Dalit Panthers | |
|---|---|
| Founder | |
| Founded | 9 July 1972[a] |
| Dissolved | 1988 |
| Ideology | Dalit socialism Anti-casteism Buddhism Marxism |
The Dalit Panthers was a social organisation that sought to combat caste discrimination. It was led by a group of Mahar writers and poets, including Raja Dhale, Namdeo Dhasal, and J. V. Pawar in some time between the second and the third semester of 1972.[a] It was founded as a response to the growing discontent among the Dalit youth during the 25th Independence Day celebrations. Inspired by the Black Panther movement in the United States, poet-writers J V Pawar and Namdeo Dhasal founded the Dalit Panthers, urging a boycott of the Independence Day revelry, terming it a 'Black Independence Day'. The movement's heyday lasted from the 1970s through the 1980s, and it was later joined by many Dalit-Buddhist activists.
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