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Vaishnavi Manju Pal

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What Does 'Manhood' Cost a Dalit Man?

Every year, Father's Day arrives with its familiar iconography of providers, protectors and men who hold families together. In India, as elsewhere, fatherhood and manhood are treated as near synonyms. However, it is worth asking what this equation looks like for men whose access to both has been shaped, from birth, by caste hierarchy.