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FULL ARTICLE - http://www.refinery29.com/2015/10/95759/dalit-untouchable-women-india-sexual-violence
- October 15 2015 – By MAHAM JAVAID
HOW INDIA’S “UNTOUCHABLE” DALIT WOMEN ARE FIGHTING BACK
AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE
PHOTO: COURTESY OF MANISHA MASHAAL.
Manisha Mashaal (second from right) protests with other Dalit
people to end sexual violence in India. Dalit women struggle to raise awareness
about caste-based sexual violence.
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India Today - http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/untouchability-in-india/1/484816.html
India – Untouchability – Facts on the Oldest Social Hierarchy Still Being Practiced in India – Untouchable Women
Untouchability in India
September 28, 2015 - Caste
discrimination in India is one of the oldest and continuing social hierarchies,
of dividing a society in four castes specifically Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya
and Shudra.
To break the barriers of
caste discrimination, Tirupati Tirumala Devasthanam has decided to train Dalits
(who were once known as untouchables) as priests. According to the reports,
around 200 Dalits will be given a training for about three months on daily
Vedic rituals and practices. In another village in the Indian state of Uttar
Pradesh, a school has been set up by a group of teenage children because the
village kids who were from a socially barred group were denied access to the
only primary school, in the adjoining village.
65 years after the caste
system was abolished by the constitution, India still practices one of the
cruelest feature of the it, untouchability. It is only now that few
organisations have started breaking the social hierarchy.
The data collected by the
India Human Development Survey conducted by the National Council of Applied
Economic Research says the same. Take a look!
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About 27 percent of the Indian households still practice
untouchability
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Since, Brahmins come on the top of the caste chart, 52 percent
of them still practice untouchability
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Only 5.34 percent of Indian marriages are inter-caste
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About 15 percent of Scheduled Caste and 22 percent of Scheduled
Tribe respondents admitted to the practice
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It is most widespread in Madhya Pradesh with 53 percent
practicing untouchability. Madhya Pradesh is followed by Himachal Pradesh with
50 per cent. Chhattisgarh comes on the 3rd position with 48 percent, Rajasthan
and Bihar with 47 percent, Uttar Pradesh with 43 percent, and Uttarakhand with
40 percent
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The survey also shows that almost every third Hindu practises
untouchability (33-35%)
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More than 160 million people in India are considered
'Untouchable'
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Statistics compiled by India's National Crime Records Bureau
indicate that in the year 2000, about 25,455 crimes were committed against
Dalits
· Every hour two Dalits are assaulted; every day two Dalits are murdered, and two Dalit homes are torched.