Social Problems of Untouchable Castes

Contents: 1. The Dalit situation in India today. 2. The status, survival and current dillema of a female Dalit. 3. The effects of caste class and gender oppression. 4. Unheard voices of Dalit women. 5. India’s untouchables leaving Hinduism. 6. India’s untouchability face violence discrimination. 7. Issue of untouchability  in modern India. 8. Untouchability and beyond: an introduction of Indian Dalits. 9. Poverty in rural India: caste and tribe. 10. Social security politically untouchable. 11. Offences of untouchability against scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. 12. Study of the scheduled caste and Dalit. 13. Hinduism and untouchables. 14. Race on the edge of Indian thought. 15. India: Dalit challenge-a cultural revolution in the making?. Bibliography.

In contemporary India, sixteen percent of the total Indian population claims the status of Dalit. The 1991 census estimates that the Dalit population in India totals approximately 138 million people (India, Ministry of home affairs, registrar general and census commissioner, 1993). Dalit are kept socially and physically separate from caste member in a number of ways.

Occupation and physical appearance often differentiates the Dalit from member of the caste system 4. In addition, the Dalit population is commonly clustered together in segregated hamlets at the edge of a village. They are usually a small and assailable minority in any given region. This position of vulnerability makes resistance to exploitation and violence difficult.  The befouled status of the lower castes has encumbered the Dalit population with year of subjugation and such conduct has resulted in widespread intolerance of the untouchables. “(jacket)