The study seeks to situate the Dalit Sikh past with reference to two important urban centres of north-east India. While delineating their regional experiences, it intends to underscore whether these men, like their diasporic brothers of the West, carry there anything of their Sikh baggage. It also attempts to review how they responded to varied forms of regional ethnic polarization and discrimination. The essay concludes with a brief reference to the relevance of the contemporary developmental politics on their everyday living.