Emergence of Dalit Political Movement in Andhra Pradesh: A Critical Study

Dalit movements started as a form of revolution in order to voice out for the right in the society. People fight for a cause and that turns into a movement and sometimes it is the movements which bring people together to fight against the atrocities. Likewise, Dalit movement started in the early 80’s by Bakthi saints and it gained its momentum with giants like Buddha, Phule and Ambedkar. The inequality among the human on the basis of the religious text and rituals created inferiority and superiority complex in the minds of the people. The fight to gain the position as equal to other human and to stop the ill-treatment within human the movements stated to emerge. This Paper will mainly focus on the Dalit political movement in Andhra Pradesh.