The Iconography of Dalit Resistance: Contestations over Ambedkar Statues in U.P

In Pachokhar village of Atarra, Banda the crickets are loud even in daytime. After midnight fell on 15th June last year, when the last person tired by this strange new pandemic had retreated to their bed, someone stole into the village park. The swell of crickets scored the scene — the only witness to an attack that was repeating itself even as the village slept on. Mahapurush Park is a respite of green and breeze in water-hungry dusty Bundelkhand. A sea of trees and blue sky surround a figure, raised high on a pedestal in the center of the park. In the morning of 16th June, when villagers went to offer their routine-prayers they found that what used to be