Nearly two years after the first demolition, the BMC on Monday cleared the last remaining structures of Jai Bhim Nagar — a Powai settlement of migrant workers that had existed for nearly four decades.

Long before ‘Jai Bhim’ became a greeting of solidarity and pride for Dalit communities across India, the slogan was born quietly on the banks of a river in rural Marathwada. Its origin story, tucked ...