The suspected honour killing of a Dalit man near Coimbatore on Sunday may have caused a nationwide uproar, but this is only the latest case of caste-based violence in a state with its own history of Dalit oppression.A group of unidentified men armed with hatchets and sickles hacked 22-year-old Shankar to death in the town of Udumalaipettai in Tiruppur district, reportedly for marrying his wife Kausalya, an upper caste Hindu. Kausalya told police she believed the attackers were hired by her family as she was threatened by them in the past for marrying against their wishes.
