sameeksha Current Issue : VOL 45 No. 30 July 24 - July 30, 2010    See Full Contents>>
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    Illegitimacy of the State in Bihar   (31st October 2009)
     Avinash Kumar
          The massacre on 2 October of 16 villagers in Khagaria in Bihar is just the latest of many such incidents of caste-based violence that have plagued the state for decades. The lack of commitment to land reform and towards ending caste exploitation is responsible for such violence, in which the dalit landless are invariably the victims. Caste configurations have changed, some “upper” backward castes have become more powerful but the dalit landless continue to suffer. Land is at the heart of all the struggles, which are sometimes incorrectly and lazily attributed to Naxalite action by the state administration.


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