Ravidas matters twice over. Theologically, a leatherworker of a caste whose touch was held to pollute is inside the scripture as a revealer, and his Begampura hymn describes a city with no tax, no rank, no property and no anxiety — a text now read across north India as the earliest Dalit political imagination. Socially, the relationship has broken. Dalit Sikhs, mostly of the Ravidasia and Mazhabi communities, have long maintained separate gurdwaras and in many Punjab villages separate cremation grounds. After the killing of Sant Ramanand in a Vienna gurdwara in 2009, the Dera Sachkhand Ballan declared Ravidassia a separate religion in 2010 and began installing its own scripture, the Amritbani Guru Ravidass, in place of the Guru Granth Sahib. That is the most serious schism in modern Sikhism, and it happened over caste — inside a tradition whose founding claim is that caste does not exist.