It's a shame even 70 years of reservations and quotas hasn't 'uplifted' the backward castes & classes, who continue to hold on to their false beliefs, passed on over generations. Also, one must read history well to know that the Dalit Mahars did fight as part of the British army in Koregaon Bhima in 1818, but didn't win as claimed by folklore in the community. The Peshwas and the British army had both had casualties and the former had to withdraw to Seroor. The irony is that the Mahars were better off in Peshwa rule than in the British estmt which labelled them as 'criminal tribes' or 'sweeper class' and gave them menial jobs, like scavenging. Yet, the Mahars fought as part of the British army against these Peshwas. They were both ungrateful and treacherous.
Back to this day, the Dalits have been appeased in every which way over the past 70 years, but haven't quite progressed economically (due to the 'creamy layer' within them) nor did they gain greater social acceptance, which were the main objectives of the reservation / quota systems. Govt must replace the current system with one which provides reservations to economically weaker sections, not caste / class-based ones, which will benefit the more deserving communities and end the sense of entitlement among certain castes & classes.

Every day or week passes when we have Law and order problems. Ever since Modi came to power ,our law and order have been put on the back burner. Now
Dalits will be blamed for this Bandh but what else they could do.This is to show the nation and the world that though being discriminated for centuries,they have lived in peace and now an event which they have celebrated for centuries is
purposely and knowingly disturbed as they were able to defeat great Marathas and can we write a new history.
This was a preplanned attack on the community and police did nothing as judiciary and police belong to high cast.
The Bundh was called in advanced and thus why would people even try to break this and thus Dalits had to show their gathering for such Bundh.
Where is PM Modi and why is he3 quite for such lunacy of attacks on Dalits?
Will someone kindly tel;l us that since Modi took over how many religious attacks on minorities have been committed and when has Modi even uttered a word. Like Lynching and disturbing Chrismas, will BJP,RSS,ShivSEna,Marathas continue to attack this mibnority also?

It is sad that the upper castes will not allow Dalits to commemorate the victory of the Mahars who enabled victory for the British. The Mahars were treated in such a vile fashion by the Brahmins of the time that they had no compunction joining the British to defeat their oppresors.
Even now the upper castes would rather blame others rather than acknowledge the cruel, inhuman way they treated the Dalits in the past. It would be so much simpler for the upper castes to admit the wrong that was done to the Dalits in the past and pledge to forge a better future.

As the Dalits declare war on Bharatha Varhs yet again, here is some interesting information:
The British forces that engaged in this battle were the Dogra Regiment (some 2,000 soldiers), a Detachment of British (EIC) Troops ( 200 or so) and a platoon (35 soldiers) of Mahar Machine Gunners (In 1818 this was probably an improved version of the unreliable Puckle that was produced for British Ordinance in 1722, as the Maxim was not yet invented)

The Mahar Regiment was not disbanded in 1892 by the British because of the theory of "martial races" but because they were ungrateful, disloyal and disobedient. They were resurrected in 1941 because after WW 1 and into WW 2, the British were seeking any port in a storm.

Like the Pathans and the Madrassis in the Bengal Presidency, the Mahars in the Bombay Presidency did not cease from massacring Brahmins (men, women and children) and plunder as reprisals for 1857 when ordered to do so by wiser British counsel, but carried on their orgy of their own free will and accord. (The Sikhs who were also Dallits i.e. Light Infantry) stood down from the massacre of Brahmins in the Bengal Presidency when ordered to do so). This was in no way acceptable to Commander in Chief, Bobs Bahadur, Lord Roberts who was deeply committed to the British learning the lessons of the Mutiny which included respect for Native religions and Cultures which continued until discontinued by the Civilian Aurhority that took over from the British in 1947 and was reversed by the Constitution of 1949 to respect, honour and elevate the Dalits and Alien religions with contempt for native religions and cultures.

Daalit is a British made myth woven out of Phule’s noun intended to Divide to Rule by enshrining inequality under law, casteism and communalism in the Constitution so that India would remain suppressed, import goods and export wealth

Daalits were never Shudras. Daalits were outlaws whereas Shudras formed the main congregation of temples and the land owning class. The "Daalit" myth is a British confection designed to destroy Native religions, culture and the the Temple Congregational Commonwealth Welfare System (effectively abolished by Nehru's Congress in 1959 together with native religious freedoms and the freedom of the tribals to forage in their forests and of thoroughfare)

It took fifty years after our Independence from British rule, before a Captain Chavan of the Dogra Regt, refused to drink a toast raised to the Koregaon day because his forefathers were a part of the Peshwa Army and had lost their lives in the battle. Realisation dawned on the Army authorities who then sloughed several such Battle Honours and celebrations including Plassey. But, casteism and communalism are enshrined in the Indian Constitution that was drafted by Sir Maurice Gwyer for Nehru and Ambedkar to embroider notions like "Four legs good, two legs bad", and "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" borrowed from George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and so condemn India to a perpetual civil war and rule by the Constitutionally Certified Congenitally Incompetent and otherwise also incompetent-corrupt to keep India suppressed, an importer of goods and exporter of wealth, and subservient to aliens and alien ideologies