WHEN armed men stormed into a village of lower-caste Indians, fanning out through its dirt lanes and flinging open the doors of its mud homes, Binod Paswan jumped into a grain silo and peered out in horror.
Within hours, witnesses say, upper-caste landlords massacred 58 Dalits, people once known as “untouchables,” most of them farm workers in the eastern state of Bihar who had been agitating for higher wages. Seven of them were members of Paswan’s family.
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