How Dalit movements in India have facilitated their Identity formation ? Analyze. (Answer in 150 words)

- How Dalit movements in India have facilitated their Identity formation ? Analyze. (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
Dalit movements turned a stigma imposed from outside into a name, a history and a claim of their own.
Body
1. What identity formation involves: For a subordinated group it means refusing the category others assign, replacing it with one of its own, and giving it a past, symbols and a political demand.
2. How the movements built it: Naming came first, the Dalit Panthers taking up 'Dalit' against the paternalism of 'Harijan'. A counter-history followed: Phule's Gulamgiri read caste as conquest. Ambedkar supplied ritual exit and political form, in the Mahad satyagraha of 1927 and the conversion to Buddhism at Nagpur in 1956; Kanshi Ram then translated identity into electoral arithmetic as the bahujan. Omprakash Valmiki's Joothan made private humiliation a shared public fact.
3. Where it remains incomplete: Divided by sub-caste, hence sub-categorisation demands, and by region; Dalit women assert separately against caste and patriarchy; and the educated beneficiary stands far from the landless.
Conclusion
They produced a political subject where there had been a residual category.