ABSTRACT
This chapter explores and examines the perceptions and experiences of individuals of the dalit caste with particular reference to the relationships and interactions with each other. The Quota policy, which designed to promote the social mobility and advancement of the dalit as a homogeneous community has had some modest successes. It examines details of the Quota System policies that cast light on the intrinsic and multi-faceted differences that exist between individuals of the dalit caste. The chapter examines the processes of social change affecting the dalit caste, paying particular attention to the growing challenges that disturb relationships between the privileged members of the creamy layer and their Quota colleagues in higher education. The caste identity of dalit individuals is also differentiated by the sub-divisions within the dalit caste and the advantageous placement of creamy-layer dalit students enables them to exercise a degree of social power, and in this way to perpetuate some form of discrimination.
