Who Are Dalits? A Dalit?

Topic for the Seminar:Dalits In India By K.Hymavathi Asst.Proffessor Dept.Of AS&H Vitam College of Engg. Visakhapatnam My Paper deals with the “Social Status of Dalits during the pre and post Independent India” India is a vast country. It is a land of rich culture and heritage. It is also a land of unity in diversity with its people following multi-religion and speaking many languages. India enjoys a democratic form of government. It has become independent 62years ago. Cast System In India: Social

Christian Dalits also suffer alienation from their fellow Hindu Dalits because of social and religious differences. Hindu Dalits see their fellow Christian Dalits as potential competitors in the share of reservations which are given by the government. This disfavor is primarily due to non-Christian Dalits seeing their Christian counterparts as already having benefited from and uplifted by missionary and ecclesiastical assistance. Many of them also see conversion to Christianity as a shameful surrender

Hindi Dalit literature’s moment has arrived. After years of obscurity and unflattering comparisons to the maturity and expressiveness of Dalit literature in languages such as Marathi and Tamil, creative Dalit writing in Hindi is finally reaching a more visible level of popular recognition. Hindi Dalit novels, autobiographies, short-story and poetry anthologies, as well as volumes of literary criticism, are today being regularly published by Delhi’s top Hindi-language publishing houses, Rajkamal and

Dalit movement started under the leadership of Dr. Ambedkar and within that the Dalit women movements struggle of within and out discrimination of Dalit women. Dalit women movement inspired by Dr. Ambedkar, Savitri and Jotiba Phule and adopted the ideology of them in their struggle against caste, patriarchy and class. Historically, lower caste women or Dalit women have been exploited on the basis of social, economic, political, and cultural grounds. Caste system and patriarchy are the major system

Study of Dalit Literature of subalternity through an upsurge of new social class and consciousness among the Depressed section Dr. Pravat Ranjan Sethi pravatjnu@gmail.com Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. - B.R. Ambedkar Abstract Dalit is a category of self-definition of Untouchables

aware of the situation, yet not much has changed. Mahila Jagruthi is an untouchable women, otherwise known as a Dalit who has informed the world through her paper Commodification of Women Due to Imperialist Globalization.The protest so far has not resulted in a fair system. Most forms of protest are non violent. The resistance is found through forums, and world organizations. Many Dalits work to help the situation by going directly to government officials. Jagruthi wrote her paper

Constraints in obtaining education by Dalits • Dependency on dominant castes for their livelihood. • Poverty and economic backwardness. • Discriminatory practices against Dalit students by teachers and other dominant castes. • Lack of continued employment opportunities. • .Neglect of education in welfare schemes. • Mushrooming of private schools. • Family burdens and responsibilities. • Irrelevant curriculum. • Lack of proper guidance. • Lack of quality education. • Compulsions of earning at a young

I. Introduction The prime focus of this paper is to explore the modern Pentecostal or charismatic movement and its impacts among the Dalits and the tribal in India. In this paper the presenter will also try to bring out a brief origins and historical development of Pentecostalism, in order to understand the movement and its impact on the Dalits and the tribal in India. 1. Etymology of the term Pentecostal The term Pentecostal is derived from the Greek word pentekosté which literally means ‘fifty’

In India, Dalits are what used to be called the "untouchables." The term Dalit means the "broken people." Symbolic-interaction theory would focus on the way language shapes the identity of all Indians, to give rise to an underclass like the Dalit. Systems of oppression stem from the embedding of symbols into the individual and collective psyche. Therefore, symbolic-interaction theory explains why the oppression of the Dalit continues even though the caste system has been officially and legally abolished

Bama Faustina is the most distinguished Dalit fiction writer in Tamil, and one of the most acclaimed of all Dalit women writers. She was born in Madras in 1958. Her autobiographical novel Karukku was the first Tamil Dalit text on the Christian Dalit community, through which she rose to fame. After the success of Karukku, Bama wrote Sangati and Kusumbukkaran. In India, there is a huge campus of religion situated in the society. There are four major caste divisions in India, Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya