Dalits and Tribes of India
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Secondary Education and inclusion of SCs and STs/Anugula N. Reddy. 2. Interrogating educational backwardness of Dalits and scheduled tribes in West Bengal-An agenda for empowering them/Barnali Biswas Dubey. 3. Famines and Demographic Crisis-Some aspects of the De-Population of lower casts in Madras Presidency, 1871-1921/A. Nagaraja Naidu. 4. Agenda for emancipation and empowerment of Dalits in India/Vasant Barve and S.R. Medhe. 5. Dynamics of empowering tribal education-trends and evidences from KBK Districts of Orissa/P.C. Panigrahy and K.C. Pradhan. 6. Globalisation, Dalits, Adivasis and Naxalite Movement/Md. Salauddin Khan. 7. Economic Empowerment-the Changing scenario among the tribals through self help group/Sujit Kumar Paul and Kakali Paul. 8. Deprivation of scheduled caste-A Case study based on health status/Anitha V. 9. Emergence of Megacity-impact on Dalit of Peri-Urban Areas of Hyderabad/B. Suresh Reddy. 10. Getting the secluded into social-mainstream through micro projects-A Case study of Lanjia Saora Tribe in Orissa/Krishna Chandra Pradhan. 11. Poverty among Tribals of Tamil Nadu/V. Sheela. 12. Self Help groups and economic empowerment of Dalit Women/V.R. Gomala. 13. Political empowerment of Dalits through Panchayati Raj-A Myth or Reallity/C. Jisha. 14. Role of NGOs in Removing tribal problems/Rakesh A. Joshi. 15. Conversion of Dalits in India-A Blessings or a curse/S. Johana Thamayanthi. 16. Casteism and Untouchability in Shanta Rameshwar Rao’s-children of God/Ranjini Jothi Singh. 17. Agenda for emancipation and empowerment of Dalits and Tribals/A. Marx. 18. Tribal Development-Wanted pragmatic approach/I. Satya Sundaram. Index.
Dalits and Tribes are the most disadvantaged groups. They are treated as untouchables and outcaste. Emancipating them from the clutches of traditional bondages is the first step towards empowerment. Simply, they have to be treated as human beings on par with other in the civilized cultured modern society.
Even then Dalits and tribes are subjected to systematic human rights violation on the basis of caste-based discrimination. The discrimination impinges their civil, political, religious, socio-economic and cultural rights and their rights of freedom of choice to develop as individuals. They are discriminated in the schools and colleges. They are discriminated against even in employment. Dalits are denied jobs other than scavenging-manual scavenging of night soil sweeping, tanning and other sanitary works.
Dalits and Tribes of India is a book covering the various areas of their backwardness, economic, social, religious, political and cultural. They are considered as the most marginalized group and are subject to all types of discrimination and atrocities. They are trying to empower and emancipate from their bandage. But, they are still at the lowest ladder of the development. Materials on Dalits and tribes covering all the above aspects are very scarce and hence an attempt is made to publish the papers presented in a three-day UGC Sponsored Seminar Organized by J. Cyril Kanmony. (Jacket)
