Human Rights and Dalits

Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 15:89-93 (2018)
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Human rights, which are the natural/fundamental rights of every human being, are denied to Dalits in India. The paper discusses who Dalits are, their social status and the historical cause for the denial of human rights; An important and suitable case study will be presented to prove how Dalits are exploited and denied decent life in a democratic country. The constitution of India in its preamble ensures justice, liberty, equality and fraternity to all its citizens. Every democratic country and civilized society recognizes and guarantees the value of dignity and equality to all its members. Unfortunately, in India human life and human dignity have been disregarded today. For centuries in India social gradation based on castes is a permanent uncrossable set up. Ironically, the Hindu religion has sanctioned some castes the “natural superiority”. This has compelled the oppressed castes to fight for their rights and their right place in the society. The knowledge of their oppression and the conspiracy of their “lower place” in the gradation have come to Dalits through the education system introduced by the British during their rule. The Scheduled Castes adopted the nomenclature Dalit as a symbol that denotes revolution and change. Dalits believe in humanism. But the fundamental Hindu social system has determined to destroy Dalit as a human being Dalit rights are human rights. Dalits demand their share in all systems of their country, whether they are social, economic or political. Dalits have lost their dignity, life and lively hood in the caste system - and all Dalit movements should strive to regain the lost human personality by working strongly to eliminate this obnoxious system.

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