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India's caste system turned on its head

A PARTY of "untouchables" took power in India's most populous state yesterday, the first time a political group championing Hinduism's lowest caste has headed a majority government in the country. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) won 206 seats in the 403-seat assembly in Uttar Pradesh, a northern state home to 170 million people - more than the populations of Russia and Australia combined. The BSP, which has fought for the rights of India's Dalits - formerly untouchables in Hinduism's stratif

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