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Dalit saints of Hinduism

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Dalit is an ancient designation for a group of indigenous Indian people. Several influential Hindu saints, though, were members of this group.[1][2] Though there has also many historical Vedic period saints, whose descendants are now considered as Dalits.[3] Many of the saints have been classified as Shudra or Avarna, because there was no concept of Dalits or Harijan.

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  • Shah, Ghanshyam. Dalits and the State. Centre for Rural Studies.
  • Jayakumar, Samuel (1999). Dalit consciousness and Christian conversion. Regnum International.
  • Strauss, Julia C; Cruise O'Brien, Donal Brian; Tauris, I. B. (2007). Staging politics.
  • Jesudasan, C; Jesudasan, Hephzibah. A history of Tamil literature (in Tamil).