The Problem of Being a Dalit in the Communist Movement R.B. More was a bridge between Dalit and communist politics and tried to change the communist party leadership's stand on the caste question. R.B. More, c. 1937. Photo: Unknown/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Rights07/Mar/2021 As recalcitrant subjects in Indian history, Dalits were always a problem for the status quo and the politics and ideas that attempted to transform it. True to their outlier position in caste Hindu society as stigmatised beings, they endure abject poverty, and their condition is incomprehensible even to the well-meaning caste Hindu. Yet at times, they become problems for themselves and the people around them because of the swirling stigma and economic deprivations that bog them down and corrode their dignity.