The reasons behind the backwardness of Dalit and untouchability in society

 When Baba Saheb Ambedkar went to school then he was asked to sit outside the school and he studied but after the century the scenario has not changed much. Dalit is not a caste it is an identity. The person who exploits, tortures, cannot be a Dalit, rather he is exploited and discriminate against to others. The person who discriminates to lower caste people that shows his mentality.

In India, Caste discrimination and the caste system are one of the world’s longest social hierarchy and patriarchy things in the world. A man’s caste and caste discrimination begin with the birth of a person. If a person is born in a Dalit family, then it is a social assumption is he belongs from the Dalit community and the Dalit community is untouchable in society. No one thinks that before Dalit he is a human being and he has all the right to live life as upper caste people’s lives.

Here the question arises is that after the 72 years of independence why the condition of Dalit or discrimination in the society didn’t improve?

Lack of education

By the Eighty-sixth amendment act, Article 21A was inserted in the Indian Constitution which talks about Free and compulsory education to all the children in the age group of six to fourteen years as a Fundamental Right.

Education is the only means to improve society. Indian Constitution provides the reservation to the backward class people but the Reservation will go in vain when the beneficiary is not getting the benefit. A particular community is getting the benefit of the reservation because he belongs from the backward society and he is not in the position to bear the expense of the education as a well-settled family able to bear the education expense. But we see that after all, they are not growing in society as they should.

When any child grows in a Dalit family then his father’s financial condition is not so good or he does not understand the value of education due to which he is unable to send to school. And when the child’s age is studying, then his father takes him to work with him and the root problem arises here, and just because of the father’s fault or his illiteracy the coming generations also spend their lives under the guise of illiteracy. Sometimes If a family dares to teach its child in the school, then its poverty does not allow it to teach that why the only option left to him is to take his children to work together.

So the illiteracy in society is one of the root causes of the backwardness and discrimination of the deprived people.

Lack of Agricultural land

India is an agricultural country wherein the rural area most of the population is dependent on agriculture. In rural areas, the source of income is farming. But most of the land belongs to the upper caste people. Dalit does not have its land but those who own land often own very little Where he cannot grow the crop or sell it in the market and get a reasonable price.

Because he does not have the land the only option left to him to earn money by the daily wages or work in someone’s agricultural land.

Lack of access to the land makes Dalit economically weak and that’s why one has to work in another field. Exploitation arises here when he starts working in another field because poor people have to work according to their boss. When poor people work on the daily wages then he earns three hundred rupees in a day where he has to buy his ration for the same three hundred rupees and run the whole family. Therefore, instead of sending children to school, poor people think that it is appropriate to take them to work together so that two people can earn six hundred in a day. Here the society fails.

So lack of land plays an important role in the exploitation, discrimination of the poor people in society.

Fear from high society classes

There is fear in the eye of poor people that have been going on for years and that fear remains as it is today. We used to see in the movie or teacher used to teach that when any lower caste people were crossing from the upper caste people’s house then he had to remove his sleeper and put it on his head and pass-through front of that house. Today these all practice rarely happen but cannot deny that these all practice has been abolished. The people of the upper caste used to keep the poor as bonded labour and they used to get some agricultural land from the boss for farming. And these bonded labour used to run as hierarchy like if that bonded labourer dies then his son will work in his father’s place. That is why the poor people in the society are still afraid of the people of high caste. That’s hierarchy should be change and poor people need to be treated with love rather than fear so that the gap between a lower caste and upper caste can be ended and also eliminate discrimination from society.

The low number of Inter Caste Marriage Ratio

Nowadays we read the news in the newspaper that a lower caste boy runs away with an upper-caste boy and the family of the boy killed the girl. We don’t get to hear or read the news that Upper caste boy has been murdered for marrying a Dalit woman or lower caste girl. If an Upper cate men marriage a Dalit or lower caste girl, then the family of the Upper caste wants to murder the Dalit girl while the family of the Dalit girl or lower caste family does not complain about that marriage.

That means society accepts the inter-caste marriage but not all inter-caste marriage. They accept the inter-caste marriage where the boy should be from the upper caste while girls should be from the lower caste or if the opposite happens then society will murder you.

A way to remove the caste discrimination from society is inter-caste marriage. The more inter-caste marriages in the society, the sooner the discrimination in people will end.

Lack of political representation and command while taking any decision

You can estimate the country’s development by looking at the development of the village. Because most of the population lives in rural areas. In an urban area, everyone is aware of their right while in rural areas they are aware of their right.

The Panchayat election is held every five years and the Indian Constitution gives the reservation to contest the panchayat election. So, if someone comes from the lower caste and he can make their own decision without any interference of upper caste people or pressure from someone strong people of the society so they can eliminate the caste discrimination and atrocities from the society. Sometimes we see that because of the reservation lower caste candidate win the election but the key to power is in someone’s else hand and all the decision are taken by other people and he remains just dummy.

So more and more participants in the Panchayat election or State Assemble Election and to work for the marginalized sections of the society can eradicate the caste discrimination and atrocities from society.

ndia is a diverse country and it is the world’s largest democratic country. Here, when we retrospect then India is in question that after more than the seven decades of independence, people are discriminating one another based on their caste. It is not as same as poverty that western country will allocate some funds to eradicate it. It is totally the perception and mindset of the common people of the society where they can finish it themselves.

Caste discrimination is not something that has emerged post colonially. Caste discrimination is a type of poison and it has become the one of the social tradition and social culture which is increasing day by day in the society.