The Bombay Inferior Village Watans Abolition Act, 1958 aimed to protect Dalits’ access to land. “Ownership of this land would benefit lakhs of Dalit families.” *** Dwarkabai remembers how, as a young girl, she’d frequent the village watan land. “We grew enough to last us the whole year.” Her family’s land is part of a single plot of 660 acres …
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