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DALITS IN INDIA: ORIGIN OF CASTE AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION

    1 Author(s):  LAKSHMI NARAYAN SINGH

Vol -  5, Issue- 8 ,         Page(s) : 11 - 25  (2014 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/BBSSES

Abstract

Introduction “Dalit” is presently the most-used term for India’s untouchables. It includes more groups than the official word for untouchables in the 1935 government list of “scheduled castes,” those eligible to receive governmental benefits and parliamentary reservations. ‘Dalit’, means ground down, downtrodden, oppressed, and is now being used by the low castes in a spirit of pride and militancy. The term began to be used by politically-awakened exUntouchables in the early 1970s when the Dalit Panthers, a youthful group of activists and writers in Bombay, came on the scene to protest injustice. The Dalit Panthers, a short-lived but famous militant group of educated youth, Dalit scholars and workers.

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