Dalit youths in this UP village win a game of cricket but lose lives in the caste war (Outlook India)
"'The cricket team from Hasanpur, made up mostly of Rajputs, seems to have taken the defeats as an insult to their pride and honour. They considered themselves invincible and couldn't stomach being defeated by Dalits,' says Pushkar Raj of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL)."
See also:
the PUCL report "Two dalit youth killed for winning cricket matches" (January 2004)
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