Dalit Issues: Strategies for Comprehensive Escalation and Progress

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Issues of social justice in terms of Dalit in India/Mithilesh Kumar Singh. 3. Social inclusion and empowerment of Dalit women through panchayati raj institutions in India – a sociological study/Ghanshyam Kuswaha. 4. Dr. Ambedkar’s economic policy towards deprived section of Indian society/Tarannum Bano. 5. Dalit issues and social changes in India: with special references to Mahatma Gandhi/S K Yadav. 6. Assessment of human rights in protecting Dalit rights/ G Upadhaya and Keshav Shyam. 7. Media: intensifying the quandaries of Dalit woman/Sima Kumari. 8. Dalit community – status and direction/Deepali Gupta. 9. Health care access among Dalits/Arti Kumari and Pankaj Gupta. 10. Status of Dalit women in Indian society/Reena Singh. 11. Dalit rights: caste discrimination, global activism and the formation of a new human rights concern/Arun Kumar Sharma. 12. Socio-economic vulnerability of Dalit women/Reeta Singh. 13. Education among Dalits/Anil Kumar Singh. 14. The gender difference and caste discrimination in education enrollment in Rajasthan/Vinita Singh and Ibrahim Eldai Mohamed. 15. Sociology of sports and Dalit in present time/Bal Roop Yadav. 16. Dalits and human rights: an analysis/Diwas Kant Samadhiya. 17. Dalit women: the lives and challenges in the 21st century/Manorama Yadav and Pankaj Singh. 18. Scheduled castes and their health status in India/Minakshi Rathaor. 19. Changing climate and Dalits/Umender Kamal Gaud. 20. Dalit women and livelihood issues/Raveesh Kumar Singh. 21. Dalit women: a marginalized entity in Indian society/Poonam Srivastava. 22. Dalit women: issues and challenges in modern Indian society/Nishi Fatma. 23. Understanding reservation in purview of democracy and nation/Ratnesh Katulkar. 24. Human rights of Dalits in Indian social scenario/Dheerendra Singh.

Despite serious development efforts put forward by the state and the civil society, Dalits still remain socially excluded from the benefits that accrue to many communities. The social and economic disparities in the society have deteriorated over these years. Dalits are chronically excluded from economic, cultural and political benefits. The ambit explains that the dearth of opportunities plaguing the socially excluded communities is in its worst possible from the social institution of caste. According to the Indian census (2011) Dalits constitutes 16% of total population, yet their socio-economic and political status sets apart from the other upper castes and backward classes.

Dalits fall victim of the social institution of caste, where our society failed to keep all the social groups and communities within the reach of what we expect as a society and realize the full potential of each and every individual. Government reservations for Dalits access to education, job and political participation have helped the Dalits to increase the number of attending school and colleges, but they do little to achieve the much need social inclusion of these most marginalized groups in India. Dalits are passive victims of caste discrimination and oppression that is taking place in many parts of our country in different forms and magnitude. In this social and cultural background, this book covers the themes such as Dalit and education, Dalit and empowerment, health status of Dalits, Dalit and social system, Dalit and human right, development programme and Dalit, future of Dalit women and dignified life of Dalit.