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Synopsis A serious lacuna of post-Independence Indian Governance has been its failure to comprehensively undertake Constitution-mandated radical measures essential to bring economic freedom, educational equality at all levels, social dignity and true equality of opportunities to the "Dalits", which term is used in this book to refer to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Classes including those of Religious Minorities. With his understanding that this is the root of the weakness of the national fabric and fragility of Indian polity, P.S. Krishnan, a former Secretary to Government of India, in this book, places before the wider civil society a Road-Map for all-round advancement and empowerment of the "Dalits", who form the bulk of India's population and constitute the near-totality of its labour-force. The book takes off from the First Ambedkar Memorial Lecture at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, delivered by P.S. Krishnan and includes a number of historic and important documents such as Indira Gandhi’s letter to 1980, P.S. Krishan’s Dalit Manifesto (7-3-1996) and the Himalaya Proclamation of Rights and Entitlements of the SCs, STs and BCs including those of the Religious Minorities (17-4-2005), all together presenting the Road-Map. The book is valuable for its rare social and administrative insights and useful for all egalitarians working for SC, ST and BC rights, educationists, media professionals, political parties, policy-plan-budget makers and administrators.