History of the Indian caste system From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Indian society has consisted of thousands of endogamous clans and groups called jatis since ancient times. The Brahminical scriptures and texts tried to bring this diversity under a comprehensible scheme which hypothesised four idealised meta groups called varna. The first mention of the formal varna Indian caste system is in the famous Purusha Sukta of the Rigveda‚ although it is the only mention
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Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Buddhism News Flash Other Social Reformers Culture and Civilization Research Resources Debate and Discussions In the United Nations Worldwide Dalits Matrimonial Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was a veritable phenomenon of the 20th century. There may scarcely be a parallel indeed in the annals of human history to the saga of struggle that his life represented. Born in the family of ‘untouchables’‚ he could nonetheless scale the highest peak of scholarship
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Backward Castes. The Scheduled Castes are sometimes referred to as Dalit in contemporary literature. In 2001‚ the proportion of Dalit population was 16.2 percent of India’s total population. Since 1950‚ India has enacted and implemented many laws and social initiatives to protect and improve the socio-economic conditions of its Dalit population. By 1995‚ of all jobs in the Central Government service‚ 17.2 percent of the jobs were held by Dalits. Of the highest paying‚ senior most jobs in government agencies
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inter-generational discrimination that Dalits have been subjected to. However‚ rights won through people’s movements‚ transformative social reforms’ processes and progressive legislations are easily lost if not backed by programmes and resources‚ capacitated institutions to deliver the same and a vigilant citizenry to monitor it. There are many challenges which pose a danger to erode the rights and the entitlements scripted in all policies‚ provisions and programmes‚ but additionally: dalit under-nutrition cannot
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discriminated lowest castes of India such as Untouchables and Shudras under Scheduled Castes‚ and certain economically backward castes as Other Backward Castes.[21][8] The Scheduled Castes are sometimes referred to as Dalit in contemporary literature. In 2001‚ the proportion of Dalit
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Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar A Social Reformer Introduction “OURS IS A BATTLE FOR FREEDOM‚ OURS IS A BATTLE NOT JUST FOR ECONOMIC GAINS AND POLITICAL POWER‚ OURS IS A BATTLE FOR RECLAMATION OF HUMAN PERSONALITY WHICH HAS BEEN SUPPRESED AND MUTILATED BY THE HINDU SOCIAL ORDER AND CONTINUED TO BE SUPPRESED AND MUTILATED” These lines itself indicates that the speaker of these lines is a reformer‚ democratic leader and great orator. There have been a number of great people in the world who have
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Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar is considered a hero by millions of India’s oppressed OBCs (Other Backward Castes or ‘lowered castes’) and Dalits. He was India’s 20th century crusader against the caste system. He was a statesman‚ national leader‚ and the chief architect of the Indian Constitution. Dr. Ambedkar’s thoughts and writings still have significant influence on the masses of Indians working to free themselves from Brahmanism (the caste system‚ as validated by the religion called
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life‚ death and afterlife. The story is a first-person narrative of the ghost of a young pulaya girl‚ the already dead protagonist of the story. The story is set-up in Kerala‚ and C. Ayappan‚ a Dalit short-story writer‚ poet‚ lyricist and a playwright from Kerala‚ uses an upper-caste Christian and Dalit-Christian setting for it. Ayappan proclaims‚ “Earlier I did not think I could write about my experiences. My writing is not realist; in fact‚ you could call its mode fantasy. Yet I write about a
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in 2011‚ 201 million people belonging to various Dalit communities were recorded‚ forming 16.6% of the total Indian population of approximately 1.2 billion. Dalits are officially known as Scheduled Castes and popularly known as ‘former untouchables’. Caste is birth-based‚ ‘constructed by religion and divided by occupation’. Even though independent India in 1949‚ gave full citizenship to Dalits and abolished the practice of untouchability‚ Dalits still face exclusion‚ widespread discrimination‚
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caste system. He converted to Buddhism and is also credited with providing a spark for the transformation of hundreds of thousands of Dalits or untouchables to Theravada Buddhism. Ambedkar was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna‚ India’s highest civilian award‚ in 1990.[3] Overcoming numerous social and financial obstacles‚ Ambedkar became one of the first Dalits (untouchables) to obtain a college education in India. Eventually earning a law degree and doctorates for his study and research in
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