Dalit childrens occupations

The word Dalit comes from an ancient Hindu word .. Dal, from the Sanskrit ( is the primary
liturgical language of Hinduism ) and means broken, ground-down, downtrodden, or oppressed.
Dalit; it applies to members of those menial castes Who are also called "the untouchables"that
traditionally performed the most menial tasks in Indian society. Dalits are outcastes falling outside
the traditional four-fold caste system consisting of the hereditary Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and
Shudra classes; they are considered impure and polluting and are therefore physically and socially
excluded and isolated from the rest of society.
There were many discriminations against the Dalits,
The Dalits were also mistreated by higher castes, particularly of the Brahmins.
For example,
-Brahmins would be forbidden to bathe if a Dalit's shadow fell upon them
-They did not eat food prepared by the Dalits
. Untouchables do the worst jobs ,
- They are even forbidden to drink from the same water sources as the other castes.
-Many of these untouchables live on the street and lack footwear as well as any kind of personal
possession, even in some places they are forbidden to wear a shirt or some clothing on the upper
body.
- In fact, in some towns in antiquity they were forced to go playing a drum since the mere fact of
being touched by the shadow of one of these untouchables supposed such impurity that forced
whoever had been touched to wash thoroughly
- Prohibited from marrying with other caste members
- Forbidden to enter the churches
- Prohibited from wearing sandals or holding umbrellas in front of dominant caste member
- Devadasi system - Devadasi system is a religious practice whereby parents
marry a daughter to a temple
- Separate cemeteries

Needless to say that private property does not exist among the Dalit
It goes without saying that simple fact of privacy is meaningless in its social stratum.

The Dalits who tried to fight against the caste system , received cruel
punishments like being forced to parade naked through
The streets of the village, and being beaten, raped, tortured, hanged,
And burned

This is the story of two children Dalit, the protagonist is Ram Mohamed Thomas was abandoned by
his mother in a church, he was educated with Father Timothy, who taught him to read and write in
English, which was very useful in his Life, the other child is called Salim, who met in Juvenile
Home. Salim was a Hindu child whose parents were murdered ; Juvenile Home was an orphanage ,
a place where live abandoned children, orfans, ..homless, in the book describes it as a dirty and
noisy place, and with many more children that its capacity, according to the book, Ram became very
popular, thanks to his ability to speak and write perfectly English ,.
Salim and THomas became friends, almost brothers, later theywere taken to residential music
school, where all the children seemed to be disabled, they had to escape, because all the children
learned the songs to be beggars, and if you were blind ,You were more profitable
Ram had many jobs, in a foundry in Mombai, as a houseboy for a middle-aged actress, as a waiter in
a restaurant, I also work as a servant for an Australian colonel.... . and finally works as a tour guide
at the Taj MaMahal In Agra
In India there are about 18 million street children, 200,000 of whom live in Bombay. Boys and girls
who are born and die in the streets because of poverty, abandoned, or family breakdown.
Orphanages try to respond by welcoming children who have been abandoned by their families
due to the lack of economic resources and the impossibility of Give them a better future.

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Dalit children are also victims of human rights abuses. Dalit children suffer the most in India
from the consequences of an ineffective and ineffective social and educational system. They grow
up knowing that they will have to overcome more obstacles than the rest of the population. There
are more than 70 million Dalit children in India. A high percentage live on less than 50 cents per day
and do not attend school or drop out after primary school,

They are used as cheap labor.......

When Dalit families borrow from lenders to pay emergency health services or daily living needs,
children are often forced to work to pay debts. Due to low wages paid by these children, they rarely
earn enough money to pay their debts and free themselves from their work obligations ... .work as
cleaners, laundresses, street craftsmen, collect chatara, in the foundry ...

There are many abuses that are reflected in the book, when living with Father thimothy, one child
was sexually abused by the other Father ... later in the orphanage children were used as beggars to
get money, ... another example Of how children live Dalit was when he described the place where
he lived, south of Mumbaiun place, without ventilation, no running water, a tiny place, with a metal
roof ... the only thing they can afford ...they are down- and- down.

Dalit girls and women suffer from what is known in India as "triple
discrimination": caste, class and gender. There are an average of one thousand rapes of Dalit
women a year and many girls are still sexually exploited as devadasi or "servants of God
Girls and adolescents working without contract deprived of their liberty and in unhelthy conditions
for more than 72 hours a week for a salary of 0,88 euros per day.
This is a usual practice of thousands of young people in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu,
who are employed in conditions of slavery by textile companies in that country who then supply
their products to large international firms, including Spanish Inditex, El Corte Ingls and Cortefie

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 In India when a woman is getting married, parents have to prepare a money as a dowry,
for this reason many abortions are caused when they know they are going to have a girl,
although knowing the sex of the baby before birth is prohibited by law,
Another custom is to offer the girl as an offering to the church as an offering to the gods so
that nothing bad happens to them, Devadasi system is a religious practice when the
girl grows up, becomes public property, and used as a sexual slave of the superior castes, and
can not be denied because then the gods would become angry and fall fatalities on his family

47% of the women in India are married when they are a child (before the age of 18), and 30%
have a child when they are a child (adolescent mothers)

In the book counts as Gudiva, who in the end turns out to be the lawyer that takes Ram out of
prison, suffered physical and sexual abuse by her father, a drunker named Shantaram
Another example is his girlfriend Latika, the story of Latica is a good example, she more beautiful
than his sister, is why he was assigned to be a prostitute and thus to support the family, it was
impossible to marry or leave prostitution .Also the book describes how she was physically
mistreated by one of her clients. Prem kumar the show's host, a quiz show called "Who wants to
be millionaire?"this man also mistreated the actres Neelina kumari, in fact, this was the motive for
going to the quiz show , to get close enough to Prem Kumar and to kill him but at the end , he was
unanble to shoot and in return he tell Ram theanswer to the last question.

After fifty-five years of independence from India and despite the excellent laws to protect Dalit
women, continue to suffer sexual and physical of the high Hindu caste. The only way these Dalit
women can escape of this is through education. Through education more Dalit women can get to
know their basic human rights and can then figth against abuse and exploitation of the upper castes
There are many of the Charity organizations whose objective is to obtain scholarships and aid to
the rural areas of India and create schools..

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 As s curiosity ,Mahatma Gandhi referred to the untouchables as the Harijan, a term that
means "blessed" translated roughly as "people of God", because Gandhi believed that the
Harijan were blessed by their suffering. Recently, many untouchables have rejected the term of
Gandhi as degrading. They prefer to call themselves the Dalits, a term that can be translated as
"oppressed."

5.- What is the current situation?

The Indian government has provided the Dalits with employment privileges and has given them
special representation in the Indian parliament. Despite these measures, the Dalit continue to
have fewer educational and employment opportunities than the higher caste Indians.

The Dalit form 16% of the Indian population. The Constitution of India does not reject the caste
system, it only prohibits discrimination of Dalit. But unfortunately this discrimination still exists
in India. The truth is that in cities this problem does not appear. However, in villages where 80%
of the Dalit population live, segregation and discrimination continue to occur, because in rural
areas the villages are usually marked by caste.

So far the problem has been that the Dalits did not have political representation, the political
representatives have always been of the superior castes, but this is changing, in fact, nowadays
the president of a state of India is Dalit.

In conclusion, there are, then, obvious signs of change in the right dalits. The long-term
objectives are to give the Dalits citizenship and eliminate caste-based discrimination