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	Dalit (outcaste) Summary
		Dalits, it may be noted, are also found in Nepal while, in Pakistan, a predominantly Muslim nation, more than 60% of all Dalits are Hindus.
		Dalit politician and activist Dr Ambedkar was influential in encouraging many Dalits to convert to Buddhism in order to escape the inequities of the caste system.
		Dalits in poor communities may be the target of the frustration and fear of non-Dalits.
	www.bookrags.com /Dalit_(outcaste) (2595 words)

	Dalit Totally Explained
		Early Dalit politics involved many Hindu reform movements which arose primarily as a reaction to the advent of Christian Missionaries in India and their attempts to mass-convert Dalits to Christianity under the allure of escaping the caste system (however, the Caste system among Indian Christians remained in full force even after conversions).
		The Maharaja proclaimed that "outcastes shouldn't be denied the consolations and the solace of the Hindu faith".
		On August 2006, Dalit activist Namdeo Dhasal engaged in dialogue with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in an attempt to "bury the hatchet".
	dalit.totallyexplained.com (3255 words)

	Dalit Solidarity (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dalits whose homeland is India were made refugees in their own land by the aggressive invasion of the Aryans.
		Dalits are the descendants of the earliest settlers of India.
		Dalits are not allowed to wear shoes; if they wear them, Dalits will have to take off their shoes at times they meet a higher caste person.
	www.dalitsolidarity.org /html/who_are_dalits.htm (1828 words)

	Dalit Women and Affirmative /action
		Dalits were an even lower caste, the so called "outcaste" or "untouchable" groups, whose very shadow was considered polluting to caste hindus.
		Dalit women could not dress in the manner of other hindu women nor could they wear jewelry, and were also exploited sexually by upper caste men and as domestic labor by women of the upper caste.
		Dalit women are themselves part of the process, systems, institutions and ideologies of Indian patriarchy and brahmanization which serve to keep ninety percent of dalit women nonliterate, socially oppressed and poor.
	www.saxakali.com /Saxakali-Publications/dalit1.htm (5122 words)

	Dalit Women and Affirmative /action
		Dalit women could not dress in the manner of other hindu women nor could they wear jewelry, and were also exploited sexually by upper caste men and as domestic labor by women of the upper caste.
		Dalits may or may not be hindus; e.g., holiya and madiga are hindus; but so are former "untouchable" converts to buddhism, christianity, islam, sikhism and other religions.
		Dalit women are themselves part of the process, systems, institutions and ideologies of Indian patriarchy and brahmanization which serve to keep ninety percent of dalit women nonliterate, socially oppressed and poor.
	saxakali.com /Saxakali-Publications/dalit1.htm (5122 words)

	Dalit (outcaste) information - Search.com
		As a result, Dalits were commonly banned from fully participating in Hindu religious life (they could not enter the premises of a temple), and elaborate precautions were sometimes observed to prevent incidental contact between Dalits and higher-caste Hindus.
		Defined in this way, 'Dalit' includes not only low-caste or outcaste Hindus, but also aboriginal followers of animist religions, and possibly may have included immigrant communities that subscribed to beliefs that were seen as incompatible with orthodox brahmanist and Hindu traditions.
		In these extremely traditional villages, Dalits are still not allowed to let their shadows fall upon Brahmins for fear of ritually contaminating them; and they are still required to sweep the ground where they walk to remove the 'contamination' of their footfalls.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Dalit_(outcaste)?redir=1 (1736 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Dalit
		Dalits were forbidden to worship in temples or draw water from the same wells as caste Hindus, and they usually lived in segregated neighborhoods outside the main village.
		Early Dalit politics involved many Hindu reform movements which arose primarily as a reaction to the advent of Christian Missionaries in India and their attempts to mass-convert Dalits to Christianity under the allure of escaping the caste system (however, the Caste system among Indian Christians remained in full force even after conversions).
		On August 2006, Dalit activist Namdeo Dhasal engaged in dialogue with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in an attempt to "bury the hatchet".
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Dalit_(outcaste) (3506 words)

	Dalit Christians
		As Dalits, these Christians belong to the ancient indigenous people of the land, yet they have to struggle for their basic right to live as human beings.
		Dalit Christians should be accorded the same reservation and welfare benefits that are granted to the Scheduled Castes professing the Hindu, Sikh, and Neo-Buddhist religions under the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order 1950 as, amended in 1956 and 1990.
		Dalit Christians suffer from a high incidence of atrocities and economic and social disabilities owing to the government's reluctance to modify its discriminatory policy on reservation.
	www.dalitchristians.com /Html/demands.htm (846 words)

	Dalits (Scheduled caste, Scheduled Tribe communities) of Tamilnadu
		Although there is a clear separation between the first three castes, which are ritually pure and socio-economically dominant (referred to as the twice-born), and the fourth laboring caste, which is ritually suspect and socioeconomically dominated (referred to as the once-born), together they form the Hindu human community.
		Dalits are discriminated against, denied access to land, forced to work in degrading conditions, and routinely abused at the hands or the police and of higher-caste groups that enjoy the StateÕs protection.
		Therefore, the community that is a focus of this inquiry is representational of the Dalits in general, both in the state of Tamilnadu and the district of Chingleput.
	tamilelibrary.org /teli/dalits1.html (509 words)

	\|\| Indian Christianity \|\|
		If today the Dalits are reduced to a life of abject poverty and treated as polluted human beings, it is the non-dalit that must be seen as the agent of their dehumanisation.
		So the starting point of Dalit history is the moment when this 'breaking', 'scattering' and 'oppression' of the Dalits began, when exactly the Dalits began to be treated as degraded human beings and when exactly the Dalits lost their identity.
		A Dalit is a Dalit whether he is a Hindu or a Muslim or a Buddhist or a Christian.
	www.indianchristianity.org /dalit.html (5109 words)

	Wikipedia: Dalit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ambedkar, a Dalit, and one of the leaders of the Indian independence movement, is considered the chief architect of the Indian Constitution, in which Article 17 abolishes untouchability.
		In these villages, Dalits are still not allowed to let their shadows fall upon a non-Dalit caste member (particularly a Brahmin, for fear of ritually contaminating them), and they are still required to sweep the ground where they walk to remove the 'contamination' of their footfalls.
		The Mazhabi are one Dalit of the Punjabi Dalits that are treated as outcastes from mainstream Sikh society and not allowed to enter Sikh temples.
	en.pediax.org /Dalit_(outcaste) (2436 words)

	RELIGION AND DALIT IDENDITY
		Dalits, a new name they have coined for themselves, and demand aggressively their share in the shaping of the destiny of the nation.
		The Dalits are the descendants of the earliest settlers of India.
		The conversion of Dalits, in large numbers, to Buddhism, Christianity, Islam and Sikhism, besides being change of religion, was also a search for equality and human dignity.
	www.goethals.org /rdiden.htm (1138 words)

	National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR)
		He had encouraged other Dalits and entered the local temple that was barred to their community, and he had protested against the two-glass system in the local hotel, which prevents Dalits from using the same tea glasses as that of non-Dalits even though they pay the same price.
		The girl came from the Dalit community and the boy from a non-Dalit community.
		As the Dalit delegation landed here in Durban we were very much encouraged with the stories of victory against similar atrocities here in South Africa.
	www.dalits.org /paulroundtable.htm (700 words)

	300 MILLION DALIT "UNTOUCHABLES" ON THE VERGE OF CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY
		Dalit leaders recently met with over 640 key Evangelical Christian leaders in India led by K.P. Yohannan and Joseph D'Souza in a historic and unprecedented gathering.
		"By God's grace, the Dalit leaders have recognized that true hope and freedom for their people will not be found in a physical revolution but in relationship with Jesus Christ," said the GFA spokesman, adding: "They agreed to request that all their people, over 300 million Dalits, become Christians as soon as possible.
		Dalit leaders are counting on the Church at large to aid and assist them in the process.
	www.worthynews.com /news-features-2/india-dalit-untouchables.html (2325 words)

	Hindutva, Religious and Ethnocultural Minorities, and Indian-Christian Theology
		Although Dalit Christians joined their neighbors in various symbolic ways to indicate their unity in invoking the protection of the colony goddess for their community, they were reluctant to admit to their pastor that they played any significant role in the celebration of their Dalit religious heritage.
		Dalit and Adivasi religion and culture (and local Christianity, which is predominantly Dalit and Advasi in constitution) are storehouses of such symbolic expressions of the particularity of minorities in the face of Hindutva’s homogenizing and universalizing propensity.
		Dalits and Adivasis, especially in their proximity to Christianity, find themselves in a long and multi-pronged struggle to resist the homogenizing and hegemonizing forces of diverse Hindutva-oriented agencies that are stridently and concertedly overpowering the nation-state.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=2449 (12400 words)

	INDPRIDE
		Many Dalit Christian leaders refer to the twice-alienated situation of the Dalit Christians in India, namely, discrimination within the Church and discrimination by the State as they are denied Scheduled Caste status in the Constitution, and the related privileges which come with that status.
		It is high time that the dalits realised the true designs of the church that has alienated them from their indigenous religion and culture, which is very much a part of the myriad hues of Hinduism.
		The Dalit Christians are welcome back to the Hindu fold, to get back their due share, where the society, which is in a reformative mode, and the state are making the best efforts to redress the wrongs that have been done by their predecessors.
	www.indpride.com /casteisminchristianity.html (1153 words)

	Dalit (outcaste) at AllExperts
		Ambedkar, a Dalit, and one of the leaders of India's Independence movement, is considered the chief architect of the Indian Constitution, in which Article 17 abolishes untouchability.
		Many times the new converted Dalits are advised by the clergy to withhold the fact of their conversion and to continue using their old Hindu names to their employers, who may be Hindu, since the clergy may not always be able to fulfill the promises of jobs made as an allurement in conversion.
		Many Dalits have been drawn to other religions to improve their social and economic standing by removing them from a religious environment where they are excluded and denigrated.
	en.allexperts.com /e/d/da/dalit_(outcaste).htm (2367 words)

	WHAT KEY INFLUENCES HAVE DEVELOPED DALIT IDENTITY WITHIN CONTEMPORARY HINDU SOCIETY
		The word "Dalit" means "ground down", or "Oppressed", and it is true to say that this description of that portion of the Indian population is justified.
		The Dalit population of India (calculated as high as 72.5 % of the population according to the 1980 Mandal report) is amongst the most oppressed communities in the world.
		While it is clear that the BJP offers a clear identity to Dalits, as part of their attempt to generate a renaissance of traditional Hindu culture, and that it places them up the social scale (above secularists, and those from minority communities), the long term benefits to Dalits of this political concept is debatable.
	members.aol.com /kingsbridgere3/dalit_essay.htm (4050 words)

	Asia Times -
		Outcaste - a family memoir not of high-caste, scholarly Brahmins, so well represented on the bookshelves, but of three generations of untouchables - is different.
		If Outcaste may be used as a measure of those stories waiting to be told, that is a terrible shame.
		Outcaste lacks the literary flair of Frank McCourt's memoir, however, possessing neither its forceful, lyrical rhythm nor its artful cohesiveness.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/EI20Df02.html (997 words)

	Life style: Writers' World; No longer on the margins; Jan 18, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The recent spurt in Dalit literature in India is an attempt to bring to the forefront the experiences of discrimination, violence and poverty of the Dalit.
		Narendra Jadhav, author of Outcaste, traced this to the fact that when a group of people who have been silenced for centuries begin to talk, the natural tendency is to tell their own stories.
		The Outcaste is a brutal depiction of gruelling poverty
	www.the-week.com /24jan18/life2.htm (1634 words)

	The Hindu : An emerging voice
		Yet, Dalit voices are finally emerging, as though from a deep silent well.
		So when Ravikumar, a Pondicherry-based activist-theoretician of the Dalit movement in Tamil Nadu and S. Anand, a Chennai journalist who's been exploring caste issues, combined forces to launch `Navayana', a publishing venture that intends to concentrate on caste issues, they decided to make a splash.
		Navayana's contention, that publishers ignoring Dalit literature is both unjust and unintelligent since a large number of people are interested in the subject, was proved true by the turnout for the discussion.
	www.hindu.com /mp/2003/11/10/stories/2003111000040200.htm (921 words)

	women and girls as sexual objects: gender and race in the colony
		For example, a child of an indian and african was called a doogla (bastard) and was considered as an outcaste or dalit within mainstream indian society in the colony.
		By the end of the indenture period, a process of class divisions and internal colonization was already becoming formalized among the south asian population, in respect to indian women and dalits.
		Dalit men were made to feel deeply insecure as regards to indian women’s sexuality, reproduction and labor.
	www.saxakali.com /saxakali-publications/recastwgp2.htm (1035 words)

	Caste and Conversion.
		Christ has become a Dalits because he identified with the oppressed by being crucified and the Dalit has become Christ in the sense of the believer being 'in Christ' and therefore as Christ to the world (theosis), but also as illustrated in Matt.
		As well as being an inspiring leader of the Dalits he has become a garlanded icon, whose picture is often seen at railway stations such as Howrah in Calcutta and Chennai Central Chennai and CST in Mumbai, as well as in the Dalit slums.
		These Dalit communities that joined Ambedkar in converting to Buddhism have been called 'Neo Buddhist' by external commentators, illustrative of the fact that their conversion from Hinduism is not accepted by caste Indians who trivialise their conversion by giving it the permanent epithet of 'neo'.
	campus.fortunecity.com /medicine/167/two.htm (1909 words)

	FOLK MEDIA FOR DALIT EMPOWERMENT - SALESIANI DON BOSCO -
		The aim of PARA today is to network with other NGOs in awakening and facilitating the capacity of the community of dalits of Andhra Pradesh for leadership – in securing their own political rights and entitlement to livelihood.
		The marginalized especially the dalits, adivasis (aboriginal peoples) and tribal communities have a rich cultural heritage which is embodied in folk media such as theatre, dance, music and songs.
		Its ‘Ekalavya Training Centre’ has conducted 40 training programmes in the variety of folk forms, especially for dalit youth but also for young seminarians and youth activists who wish to be involved in the empowerment process.
	www.sdb.org /ENG/Documenti/2006/_2_31_6_1_65_.asp (690 words)

	Kanshi Ram
		It is a party formed to represent both low caste and Dalit (untouchable) persons, those at the bottom of India's caste system.
		The improvement of public education remains a priority for many Dalit activists, who believe that the poor quality of public primary schools prevents Dalits from taking advantage of the educational opportunities supposedly provided for them by quotas and prefered admission to institutions of hig...
		In a few of these extremely traditional villages, Dalits are still not allowed to let their shadows fall upon Brahmins for fear of ritually contaminating them; and they are still required to sweep the ground where they walk to remove the 'contamination' of their footfalls.
	www.experiencefestival.com /kanshi_ram (1529 words)

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