The caste system in India continues to determine the political, social, and economic lives of over a billion people in South Asia. Dalits, who are at the bottom of the caste hierarchy, make up 14% of India's population but suffer extreme discrimination, including being denied rights, earning only one Euro per day doing hard labor, and facing violence and sexual assault with little recourse. Examples provided show Dalit communities living in poor conditions without access to education, healthcare, or justice when crimes are committed against them. The system remains entrenched in society and perpetuates intergenerational poverty and lack of social mobility.
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The caste system in India continues to determine the political, social, and economic lives of over a billion people in South Asia. Dalits, who are at the bottom of the caste hierarchy, make up 14% of India's population but suffer extreme discrimination, including being denied rights, earning only one Euro per day doing hard labor, and facing violence and sexual assault with little recourse. Examples provided show Dalit communities living in poor conditions without access to education, healthcare, or justice when crimes are committed against them. The system remains entrenched in society and perpetuates intergenerational poverty and lack of social mobility.
The caste system in India continues to determine the political, social, and economic lives of over a billion people in South Asia. Dalits, who are at the bottom of the caste hierarchy, make up 14% of India's population but suffer extreme discrimination, including being denied rights, earning only one Euro per day doing hard labor, and facing violence and sexual assault with little recourse. Examples provided show Dalit communities living in poor conditions without access to education, healthcare, or justice when crimes are committed against them. The system remains entrenched in society and perpetuates intergenerational poverty and lack of social mobility.
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The caste system in India continues to determine the political, social, and economic lives of over a billion people in South Asia. Dalits, who are at the bottom of the caste hierarchy, make up 14% of India's population but suffer extreme discrimination, including being denied rights, earning only one Euro per day doing hard labor, and facing violence and sexual assault with little recourse. Examples provided show Dalit communities living in poor conditions without access to education, healthcare, or justice when crimes are committed against them. The system remains entrenched in society and perpetuates intergenerational poverty and lack of social mobility.
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Dalits and the
Caste System in India
About Caste
It describes the social stratification and social
restrictions in the Indian subcontinent, in which social classes are defined by thousands of endogamous hereditary groups, often termed castes. The caste system as outlined by the Vedas and the Manu (Holy hindu scriptures). Caste Structure Caste System
The system continues to determine political, social
and economic life of a billion people in South Asia. The most significant aspects of caste are its influence to the peoples’ thinking. Crime is justified, if it’s done to Dalits. In many cases the perpetrator get away with their crime, without any punishment. It’s like the people lose their sense for justice.
Dalits have no rights. They do the hard labour work
but earn only one Euro a day. Or less. Brief information about caste system in India
Indian society still remains in a semi feudal
and semi capitalists mode of production relation. Caste system serves this mode perfectly. The pyramid of Indian society remains aloft on the shoulders of these millions of Dalits who know nothing about their human rights. The present population of Dalits is 14% of the total population of India i.e. around 70 million. (Population of India: 1.2 Billion) Dalits has an appalling rate of literacy it is mere 32% and the total national literacy rate is 63%. The women literacy rate is 23% and only 6% Dalits own land. Most of them labour in someone else field or migrate cities to loose their identity Atrocities done with the Dalits
While the caste hierarchy is forbidden by law, Dalits still
suffer from following things: Discrimination village burned down the women get raped Torture by police
The judgment is corrupt and protect the criminals.
Landlords control the villages and can force the Dalits to work for a little money Three Examples I Example: Cruelty by police
In Narkati village in Uttar Pradesh: When a
similar upper caste police depredate the village, a five year old girl cried out loud because she was afraid of strangers. This small girl Anjali was beaten by the policemen. A complaint was lodged, Human Right Organisations tried to help, but no action against the policemen has taken yet. II Example: Musahar Ghetto near Sakara II Example: Musahar Ghetto near Sakara
Dalits often live in poor Ghettos, especially
in rural areas, like Sakara. They lack everything: Food, electricity and medicine.
They live outside the society.
II Example: Musahar Ghetto near Sakara II Example: Musahar Ghetto near Sakara
The children of this Ghetto have no
education and do hard work in a labour factories. If they are not able to write and to do math, they will stay unable to change their circumstances.
We want to give them education.
III Example: Weaver Area Muslim School
3. A III Example: Weaver Area Muslim School
School in the Muslim Weaver Area in
Varanasi. Muslims are also marginalized. The parents work mostly as weaver, but don’t earn much. Some Muslim schools only provide religious education and girls are not allowed to visit the classes. III Example: Weaver Area Muslim School III Example: Weaver Area Muslim School
After class children often work with their
parents. They do their homework at night.
After graduate school, only some can study,
because it is very expensive in India. The most will work as a weaver, like their parents, even they want to do other and better jobs. Thank You
Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR)
SA 4/2 A Daulatpur, Varanasi India Email: [email protected] Blog: pvchr.blogspot.com Website: www.pvchr.org