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JAMES SCHALLER, MD REPORTS ON INDIA'S DALITS, SLAVERY AND UNTOUCHABLESA Dalit is an Outcaste and is not counted by many as human. They have horribly abused and are also treated as Untouchables and can only relate to other Dalits. While some wrongly think things were made better under the India constitution —tell that to a Dalit or someone visiting after seeing them in cities after their land is taken away. In Hindu society, Dalit are given jobs regarded as ritually impure, such as any involving leatherwork, butchering, or removal of rubbish, animal carcasses, and waste. Dalits work as manual labourers cleaning streets, latrines, and sewers. Engaging in these activities was considered to be polluting to the individual, and this pollution was considered contagious. As a result, Dalits were commonly segregated, and banned from full participation in Hindu social life. For example, they could not enter a temple nor a school, and were required to stay outside the village. Elaborate precautions were sometimes observed to prevent incidental contact between Dalits and other castes. Discrimination against Dalits still exists e.g., eating out, schools, temples and the use of water. The large majority of the Dalits in India are Hindu. Another Martin Luther King lives and has integrity passion in the face of routine dead— Dr. Joe D.Souza. of the Dalit freedom Network. Dalit girls take 1st step towards empowerment December 2, 2010 For, the 2,138 girls who passed out of Dalit Shakti Kendra on Sunday beamed not just with a sense of pride but the knowledge of power to fight the discrimination when they go back to their villages. Human Traffickers Target Victims of Violence in Kandhmal January 17, 2011 Human traffickers are preying upon the victims of the 2008 Kandhamal communal violence. At least four girls were trafficked to Delhi with false promise of jobs. Long live my Dalit friends forever. |
