Violence against Dalit Woman and Constitutional Protection: An analysis

The triumphant Brahmanism began an onslaught on both the Shudras and the women in pursuit of the old idea, namely servility, and Brahmanism did succeed in making the Shudras and the women the servile classes: Shudras the serfs to the three higher classes and the women the serfs to their husbands (Ambedkar 1987,Vol. 3. P.316-17). This sentence in Ambedkar has multiple reflections. It unfolds the phenomenology of caste structure in Hindu system and the condition of woman and Dalits. In this context, this paper explains the constitutional safeguards and the present condition of violence against dalit women