Write a note on the Dalit perspective of Indian National Movement. (Answer in 150 words)

- Write a note on the Dalit perspective of Indian National Movement. (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
The Dalit reading accepts that the national movement fought foreign rule but denies it was a freedom struggle, since it left Brahmanical domination untouched.

Body

1. Swaraj without social democracy: Ambedkar warned that swaraj for the Hindus would mean the rule of the Hindus, and Annihilation of Caste made political freedom conditional upon a prior social revolution.
2. A separate political lineage: Phule's Gulamgiri and the Satyashodhak Samaj, Ayyankali in Travancore, Periyar's Self-Respect movement and the Namashudra mobilisation in Bengal ran parallel to Congress rather than within it.
3. The contest over representation: Mahad in 1927 and Kalaram in 1930, the Round Table Conferences, and the Communal Award of 1932 followed by the Poona Pact, which Ambedkar regarded as extracted by Gandhi's fast.
4. A different periodisation: Freedom is dated not from 1947 but from 26 January 1950, when Article 17 and enforceable fundamental rights made citizenship legally real.

Conclusion
Gail Omvedt reads this as an unfinished democratic revolution. Its force is that it exposes what nationalist historiography deferred and what subaltern historiography dissolved into class.