No person is more of a human being than another and person is less. Essentially we are all equal but not identical and equally entitled to our human rights.
A fact which leads people to draw lines accdoss the human map and to draw attention to difference thy believe to be important. When lines are established that not only separate groups, but suggest that one group is bette/worse than anather simply because of race,colour,sex,language,relion,political opinion or national or social origin, this is Discrimitaion.
Often, the most common line highlight Untochability.Ithas been a great stigma in India. Untochbility means a person who is identified as 'Low Caste' and is treated as a social outcaste. Until recentiy the So-Called 'Upper caste' Hindu refused to inter-relate in any way with the "Dalit". The Dalit are even prohibited temple and also in classroom.
Artical 17; aims at the abolishment of Untouchability. Its practice in any form is forbidden and made punishable.
Nearly 90 percent of all the poor Indians and 95 persent of all the illiterate Indians are Dalits.The Hindu social order has been charecterised by a high degree of inter-group inequality in the economic and socual spheres of community life. Not only was high inequality forced into ownership as well as access to resources, but the tenets under the hindu social order were aiso effectively used to perpetuate inequality in incom, employment and education between the castes, more so between so-called high castes and low-caste untouchabiles.
Indian's untouchables are relegated to the lowest jobs,and live in constant fear of being publicly humiliated. Human Rights abuses against these people known as Dalit, are legion. A random sampling of headlines in mainstream Indian Newspaper tells ther story.
Since then, the violence has escalated, largely as a result of the emergence of a grassroots Human Rights Momement among Dalits to demand their Rights and resist the dictates of Untouchability.
A fact which leads people to draw lines accdoss the human map and to draw attention to difference thy believe to be important. When lines are established that not only separate groups, but suggest that one group is bette/worse than anather simply because of race,colour,sex,language,relion,political opinion or national or social origin, this is Discrimitaion.
Often, the most common line highlight Untochability.Ithas been a great stigma in India. Untochbility means a person who is identified as 'Low Caste' and is treated as a social outcaste. Until recentiy the So-Called 'Upper caste' Hindu refused to inter-relate in any way with the "Dalit". The Dalit are even prohibited temple and also in classroom.
Artical 17; aims at the abolishment of Untouchability. Its practice in any form is forbidden and made punishable.
Nearly 90 percent of all the poor Indians and 95 persent of all the illiterate Indians are Dalits.The Hindu social order has been charecterised by a high degree of inter-group inequality in the economic and socual spheres of community life. Not only was high inequality forced into ownership as well as access to resources, but the tenets under the hindu social order were aiso effectively used to perpetuate inequality in incom, employment and education between the castes, more so between so-called high castes and low-caste untouchabiles.
Indian's untouchables are relegated to the lowest jobs,and live in constant fear of being publicly humiliated. Human Rights abuses against these people known as Dalit, are legion. A random sampling of headlines in mainstream Indian Newspaper tells ther story.
Since then, the violence has escalated, largely as a result of the emergence of a grassroots Human Rights Momement among Dalits to demand their Rights and resist the dictates of Untouchability.
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