Dalits And Tribes Of India

Dalits and Tribes are the most disadvantaged group. They are treated as untouchables and outcaste. Emancipating them from the clutches of traditional bondage is the first step towards empowerment. Simply, they have to be treated as human beings on par with others in the civilized cultured modern society. Even then dalits and tribes are subjected to systematic human rights violation on the basis of caste-based discrimination. The discrimination impinges their civil, political, religious, socio-economic and cultural rights and their rights to freedom of choice to develop as individuals. They are discriminated in the schools and colleges. They are discriminated against in the schools and colleges and employment. Dalits are denied jobs other than scavenging, sweeping, tanning and other sanitary works. This book covers the various areas of their backwardness, economic, social, religious, political and cultural.