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The word "Dalit" comes from the Sanskrit, and means "ground", "suppressed", "crushed", or "broken to pieces". It was first used by Jyoti Rao Phule in the nineteenth century, in the context of the oppression faced by the erstwhile "untouchable" castes of the Hindus. According to Victor Premsagar the term expresses their "weakness, poverty and humiliation at the hands of the upper castes in the Indian society.

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