Nearly every day, there is a news story about an attack on members of India’s Dalit community. A few days ago, for example, six men beat a pregnant Dalit woman and members of her family. Al Jazeera television said they were attacked for refusing to remove a dead cow from the street. Dalits are members of India’s lower caste, or social class. The woman’s attackers were members of a higher caste. Beatings and other violence against Dalits are not new. What is new, however, is the community’s reaction. Recently, Dalits have been protesting in a number of ways. The pregnant woman, for example, is among a growing movement of Dalits who have promised not to clear the streets of dead animals a job Dalits have long been expected to perform. Other Dalits are taking their protest to the business world.