{"id":62558,"date":"2022-01-30T15:06:44","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T09:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/?p=62558"},"modified":"2023-11-06T15:24:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T09:54:05","slug":"study-materials-english-social-issues-untouchability-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/study-materials\/english\/social-issues\/untouchability-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Untouchability in India &#8211; Discrimination, Abolition and Present Scenario"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_37 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><label for=\"item\" aria-label=\"Table of Content\"><span style=\"display: flex;align-items: center;width: 35px;height: 30px;justify-content: center;\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"item\"><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' style='display:block'><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/study-materials\/english\/social-issues\/untouchability-in-india\/#Untouchability\" title=\"Untouchability\">Untouchability<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3'><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/study-materials\/english\/social-issues\/untouchability-in-india\/#What_is_Untouchability\" title=\"What is Untouchability\">What is Untouchability<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/study-materials\/english\/social-issues\/untouchability-in-india\/#Who_Are_Untouchables_in_India\" title=\"Who Are Untouchables in India?\">Who Are Untouchables in India?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/study-materials\/english\/social-issues\/untouchability-in-india\/#Who_are_the_Dalits\" title=\"Who are the Dalits?\">Who are the Dalits?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/study-materials\/english\/social-issues\/untouchability-in-india\/#Types_of_Discrimination_against_Untouchables_or_Dalits\" title=\"Types of Discrimination against Untouchables or Dalits\">Types of Discrimination against Untouchables or Dalits<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/study-materials\/english\/social-issues\/untouchability-in-india\/#Abolition_of_Untouchability_under_Indian_Constitution\" title=\"Abolition of Untouchability under Indian Constitution\">Abolition of Untouchability under Indian Constitution<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/study-materials\/english\/social-issues\/untouchability-in-india\/#Untouchability_Present_Scenario\" title=\"Untouchability: Present Scenario\">Untouchability: Present Scenario<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Untouchability\"><\/span>Untouchability<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Untouchability is a menace and social evil associated with traditional Hindu society. It is being practiced since times immemorial and despite various efforts made by social reformers such as Dr. B. R. Ambedkar; and despite there being provision on abolition of untouchability in our Constitution under Article 17, the evil is still in practice in our country.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_Untouchability\"><\/span>What is Untouchability<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Untouchablity in simple terms can be understood as a practice whereby a particular class or caste of persons are discriminated with on the ground of their being born in that particular caste or on the ground of their being members of those social groups involved in menial jobs. The discrimination can be in the form of physical or social boycott from the society. For instance: the members of so-called higher castes such as Brahmin, Kshatriyas etc would not dine or sit with a person of Bhangi class.<\/p>\n<p>It was believed that people of higher castes could become impure even if a shadow of an untouchable person touches him and to re-gain his purity he had to take a dip into holy waters of the Ganga.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_Are_Untouchables_in_India\"><\/span>Who Are Untouchables in India?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>According to traditional Hindu \u2018Varna System\u2019, a person is born into one of the four castes based on karma and \u2018purity\u2019. Those born as Brahmans are priests and teachers; Kshatriyas are rulers and soldiers; Vaisyas are merchants and traders; and Sudras are laborers.<\/p>\n<p>Untouchables are literally outcastes. They do not directly figure into any of the traditional \u2018Varna System\u2019 of Hindus. According to Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, untouchables form an entirely new class i.e. the fifth varna apart from the existing four varnas. Thus, untouchables are not even recognized under the caste system of Hindus.<\/p>\n<p>However, historically persons born in lowest castes and classes of persons doing menial jobs, criminals, persons suffering from contagious diseases and tribals living outside the so-called civilized world were considered as untouchables. Their exclusion from the mainstream society was based on the belief that they are impure and harmful and it was necessary to ostracized them for the overall benefit of the society.<\/p>\n<p>Untouchability was also practiced as a form of punishment to the law-breakers and criminals; they were socially boycotted for their misdeeds.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Who_are_the_Dalits\"><\/span>Who are the Dalits?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Untouchables are also known as depressed classes, harijans, etc; but today they are more frequently referred to as \u2018Dalits\u2019. In modern times, \u2018Dalit\u2019 refers to one\u2019s caste rather than class; it applies to members of those so-called menial castes which are born with the stigma of \u201cuntouchability\u201d because of the extreme impurity and pollution connected with their traditional occupations. They are considered impure and polluting and are therefore physically and socially excluded and isolated from the rest of society.<\/p>\n<p>Today members of Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes (SC\/ST) are considered as \u2018Dalits\u2019 and they are subjected to various forms of discrimination in the society. Especially, Schedule Castes such as Chamars, Passi, Bhangis and Doms, etc., are known as \u2018Dalits\u2019; these people are generally associated with menial jobs such as tanning, skinning of hides, works on leather goods, sweeping, scavenging etc.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Types_of_Discrimination_against_Untouchables_or_Dalits\"><\/span>Types of Discrimination against Untouchables or Dalits<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>According to National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR), there are various forms of discriminations being practiced against Dalits in India, these are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prohibited from eating with other caste members,<\/li>\n<li>Prohibited from marrying with other caste members,<\/li>\n<li>Separate glasses for Dalits in village tea stalls,<\/li>\n<li>Discriminatory seating arrangements and separate utensils in restaurants,<\/li>\n<li>Segregation in seating and food arrangements in village functions and festivals,<\/li>\n<li>Prohibited from entering into village temples,<\/li>\n<li>Prohibited from wearing sandals or holding umbrellas in front of dominant caste members,<\/li>\n<li>Prohibited from using common village pat,<\/li>\n<li>Separate burial grounds,<\/li>\n<li>No access to village\u2019s common\/public properties and resources (wells, ponds, temples, etc.),<\/li>\n<li>Segregation (separate seating area) of Dalit children in schools,<\/li>\n<li>Bonded Labor,<\/li>\n<li>Face social boycotts by dominant castes for refusing to perform their \u201cduties\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Abolition_of_Untouchability_under_Indian_Constitution\"><\/span>Abolition of Untouchability under Indian Constitution<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>India got Independence on 15<sup>th<\/sup> of August, 1947 after long and painful struggle of more than one hundred years. The struggle was not only against the foreign rule of British but it was also against the social evils such as untouchability prevailing from centuries. After Independence when great leaders of freedom struggle agreed to make our own Constitution, it was decided that there must be provisions under the Constitution regarding the abolition of social evils and upliftment of down-trodden castes and social groups etc.<\/p>\n<p>In view of this objective <b>Article 17<\/b> was added to the Constitution; Article 17 reads as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntouchability is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden. The enforcement of any disability arising out of \u201cUntouchability\u201d shall be an offence punishable in accordance with law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thus, Article 17 abolishes and forbids untouchability in any form. At the same time, it also makes it an offence punishable as per the law made by the Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>In order to fulfill the mandate of Article 17 of the Constitution, the Parliament enacted the <b>Untouchability (Offences) Act, 1955<\/b>. It made several discriminatory practices punishable as offences, although the punishment provided were rather mild and in their actual application even milder.<\/p>\n<p>Several lacunae and loopholes were found in the working of the Untouchability (Offences) Act, 1955 which compelled the Government to bring about a drastic amendment in the Act in 1976. The Act was revamped as the <b>Protection of Civil Rights Act.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>However, the menace of untouchability continued and \u2018dalits\u2019 were still being treated in a discriminatory way, their socio-economic conditions remained vulnerable, they are denied a number of civil rights and were subjected to various offences, indignities and humiliations.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, to counter theses atrocities meted out to so-called \u2018Dalits\u2019 section of society, the Parliament passed \u2018<b>Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Attrocities) Act, 1989<\/b>. The Act provided more comprehensive and punitive measures to deal with and to prevent discrimination and atrocities against \u2018dalits\u2019. The ultimate objective of the Act was to help the social inclusion of Untouchables\/Dalits into the mainstream Indian society.<\/p>\n<p>These above mentioned Acts were made with good intention and with positive objective of removing discriminatory practices against untouchables\/dalits but in actual practice, these Acts have failed to live upto their expectations.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Untouchability_Present_Scenario\"><\/span>Untouchability: Present Scenario<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>In our society there still exist feeling of superiority of caste and birth. We can experience the practice of untouchability in everyday life around us, especially in rural and semi-urban areas of the country. Also, in big metro cities, the inhuman practice of manual scavenging is still there. According to a news report of Press Trust of India (PTI), on January 3, 2014, four tea shop vendors were arrested by the Police in Karnataka for practicing untouchability while selling tea- they were serving tea in different types of cups to caste Hindus and SC\/STs. The incidence shows that the evil practice is so deep rooted in Hindu society that even after 67 years of Independence is continuing in one form or other.<\/p>\n<p>However, it can be said that things are slowly changing; the mind set of modern generation is also changing. Today\u2019s youth with modern education and globalized outlook are viewing the social order from different perspective of equality and impartiality and not from the religious or traditional point of view.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, the wicked practice of untouchability would be removed from the society sooner rather than later and our country would usher into a new era of social equality and brotherhood which will be the true India of Gandhi and Ambedkar.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-primary\"><button><strong>Read Women Empowerment Related Topics <\/strong><\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\">\n<table class=\"table table-bordered table-striped\" style=\"width: 61.0144%; height: 168px;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/study-materials\/english\/essay\/untouchability-essay\/\">Essay on Untouchability<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/english\/events\/anti-untouchability-week\/\">Anti Untouchability Week 2019<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 24px;\">\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/english\/mahatma\/views-of-mahatma-gandhi-on-secularism\/\">Views of Mahatma Gandhi on Secularism<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 24px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/infinitylearn.com\/surge\/english\/general\/social-reformers-of-india\/\">Social Reformers of India and Their Contributions<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Untouchability Untouchability is a menace and social evil associated with traditional Hindu society. 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