Dalit

All religious communities in India are afflicted by an unfortunate evil tendency of exclusion. A sad trend of hatred has emerged in the battle against casteism and caste-based discrimination. Kancha Ilaiah’s Why I am not a Hindu (the non-fictional bestseller of 1996) has been constructed as an expression of the voice of post-Independence Dalitbahujan consciousness, which was an integral part of their socio-political movement. Born in a small South Indian Telangana village in the 1950s, his is the

December 1956, popularly also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, political leader, philosopher,anthropologist, historian, orator, economist, teacher, editor, prolific writer, revolutionary and a revivalist for Buddhism in India, inspiring the Dalit Buddhist movement. He was also the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. Born into a poor Mahar (considered an Untouchable caste) family, Ambedkar campaigned against social discrimination, the system of Chaturvarna – the categorisation of Hindu

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

To put on their clothes made one a sahib too: Mimicry and the Carnivalesque in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable The character of Bakha, in Anand’s Untouchable, is drawn from the lowest caste in Indian society, that of sweeper, or cleaner of human ordure. Despite his unpromising station in life, the central figure in the novel operates at a variety of levels in order to critique the status quo of caste in India. Well aware of his position at the nadir of Indian society, Bakha is able-via his untouchability-to

The face of literature has completely changed in the present time. Literature was considered as a broad entity but literature has developed into various branches lately. For example, Dalit literature is literature written by Dalits about their lives. Dalit literature forms an imperative and distinct part of Indian literature. African-American literature is another literature which is produced in United States by writers of African descent. Not only these two, but many

SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT ASSIGNMENT SUBMITTED TO : Dr. SHASHI RANI DEV : Mr. SUDHIR MASKE SUBMITTED BY : QUAMRUL HUDA CLASS : MSW-III SEMESTER TOPIC : MARGINALIZED PEOPLE IN INDIA- SCHEDULE CASTE INTRODUCTION Marginalized people are those people who are excluded from the society or society’ s people don’t provide them opportunity for integrating them because of this they leg behind in social as well economic progress. We need two kinds of identity for

lived for a while near a plantation in Assam and visited Ceylon. And saw the inhumanity and barbarism prevalent there, with the consequent dehumanization of the colonials involved in the process" (Anand, Mulk, Raj. www.lanuageinindia.com/aug2014/ sulochanatwoleavesfinal.Web.13 Nov 2014). The novel opens with Gangu's arrival at the tea-estate with a thought in his mind that 'life is the journey'. However, for Gangu 'the journey' is not a bed of roses. It is a have-not’s journey of life bond to many

“Turn in any direction you like, cast is the monster that cross your path. You can’t have political reform; you can’t have economical reform, unless you kill this monster” DR. Ambedkar’s birth in an untouchable community and in a system based on the graded inequality and injustice and deprivation of basic human rights to his brethren was responsible for giving a purpose and mission of his life. Dr. ambedkar is the man of the millennium for social justice, since he was the first man in history to

Investigation result by interviewing Pichet Into as a witness was referred by report; he is working as Jakkapat’s subordinate. Around the middle of 2015 Pichet had only confronted arguing on BBS records after purpose diverged with Jakkapat opinion and felt Jakkapat is stubborn and self-willed. However, Pichet did not have situations concern issues in the report; he raised cases might accordance the findings. First, Jakkapat appoint underlings to handle MRU machine, installed to implement purifying

(De Reuck and Knight, 1967). Dalits face severe forms of torture by state and private actors, in 1994-1996, there were 98,339 caste of brutality alone (Human Rights Watch, 2007). The caste system is a larger instigator for racial violence on the basis of emotion. Conflicts arise due to feelings of superiority, pleasure, triumph and angst (Law, 2010). Intragroup violence and racial conflicts are common as status groups try to achieve or defend their position. When Dalits have sought to gain status