Book Review: ‘Crisis of Dalit leadership’ by Prof Shyam Lal

Using Rajasthan state politics as a case study, Prof Shyam Lal shows that the crisis of Dalit leadership is not because the Dalit leaders are inept or are indifferent to the plight of the Dalits but because of the upper-caste leaders who ignore their Dalit colleagues and portray them as incompetent, writes Kanwal Bharti