Volume : 9, Issue : 7, July - 2020

Atrocities on Dalits in Andhra Pradesh with Special Reference to East Godavari District

G. Kiran Kumar

Abstract :

This work aimed to deals with the major Dalit conflicts and their response in East Godavari district Andhra Pradesh. Many previous atrocities inflicted on Dalits by the upper castes produced only sympathy which did not result in the requisite revolutionary combative spirit. The Karamchedu and Chundur incidents changed all that. Karamchedu marked a distinctive eak in the Dalit movement in Andhra Pradesh. It became the glorious historical symbol of the Ambedkarite movement like that of Naxalbari of the Marxist Leninist struggle in India. East Godavari District played a vital role in the dalit movements because it is densely dalit populated and well educated district.