...” to “Empowerment”: Kanshi a new kind of leadership combining socio-religious Ram’s Political Strategy for Shaping the Bahujan work at the grassroots level with political action “from Samaj above.” He became convinced that his caste fellows Kanshi Ram was born in 1932 in a Scheduled Caste should convert...

... of autonomous localized tive, could be elected, Dalit political power would follow community action groups. Publications from the small and could be used to eliminate both caste oppression and headquarters office in Delhi reflected Kanshi Ram's search economic exploitation. These expectations have been con...

... issues like the Muslim Personal Law came to power has come centre stage, thanks to the Uttar acquire the status of “sacred cows,” around which Pradesh experiment of Mulayam Singh and Kanshi the identity of the entire community began to get Ram. The BJP thus faces a dilemma: it can hardly...

... Pradesh, led by Mulayam Singh Yadav and taken. Yet it would be reckless to write the BJP’s Kanshi Ram, took the wind out of the BJP’s sails. political obituary. The party still commands the Swapan Dasgupta, BJP’s chief ideologue in the allegiance of millions and exercises, according to its...

... complex. Lanka, to “culturo-populist” movements such as the However, it is its movement — from an historic Tamil Dravidian parties — the DMK of the 1960s, and conjunction founded on complicated itineraries and finally to the BSP of Kanshi Ram and the radical wing varied cultural references...