Dalits in Pakisthan

Frontier Vol. 44, No. 7, Aug 28 -Sept 3, 2011 ‘BEYOND THE BORDER’ Dalits in the ‘Land of the Pure’–Pakistan Yoginder Sikand ON A VISIT TO SINDH, IN southern Pakistan, some years ago, I met up with a remarkably brave social activist who has spent years seeking to mobilize poverty-stricken landless labourers for their rights in this lawless, violencewrecked province of Pakistan, self-styled ‘land of the pure’—which is what the word ‘Pakistan’ literally means. The vast majority of them are Hindu S