REPORTS of attacks on minorities, especially Muslims, in Uttar Pradesh have become commonplace. Justifications of these attacks are a regular feature on high-decibel, provocative tv ‘debates’. Hindi newspapers are also full of these reports and justifications. This has become a tested way of deepening religious polarization which has paid rich political dividends for the ruling party. Attacks on dalit men, women and children occurring with greater frequency and intensity after 2017 are, however, absent from the mainstream electronic media and hard to f