'They Severed My Mother's Leg With a Sickle': Dalit Fight for Land in Punjab Comes at a Price

In 2016, violence broke out between landless Dalit labourers and upper-caste Jat Sikh farmers in Jhaloor village in Punjab's Sangrur district. One person died and several others were injured. At the heart of the controversy was the ownership of 33% of Panchayati land in the village, reserved for the Scheduled Castes. Since then, the Dalit community in the village has been fighting to reclaim their land. Six years on, who are the Dalits of Jhaloor expected to vote for?