Dalit Businessmen

On his barefoot trudge to school decades ago, a young Ashok Khade passed inescapable reminders of what he was: the well from which he was not allowed to drink; the temple where he was not permitted to worship. At school, he took his place on the floor in a part of the classroom built a step lower than the rest.

The government may not have provided any specific incentive to socially deprived entrepreneurs, but the country's Dalit businessmen are now coming together, to claim their share of the economy's pie.After none of the existing chambers and industry associations voiced their specific concerns, a group of Dalit entrepreneurs have now come together and...

On his barefoot trudge to school decades ago, a young Ashok Khade passed inescapable reminders of what he was: the well from which he was not allowed to drink; the temple where he was not permitted to worship. At school, he took his place on the floor in a part of the classroom built a step lower than the rest.

The government may not have provided any specific incentive to socially deprived entrepreneurs, but the country's Dalit businessmen are now coming together, to claim their share of the economy's pie.After none of the existing chambers and industry associations voiced their specific concerns, a group of Dalit entrepreneurs have now come together and...