Forms of Discrimination against Dalits and Identity Crisis

There are many evil practices in Hindu society one such evil is caste which divides and split society into occupational cubicles. These occupations were predetermined based on the caste hierarchy; in this caste ladder, former untouchables were arranged at the lower step of the ladder. All the menial and despicable jobs have been done by them; it applies to members of those menial castes today known as Dalits. Dalit is a caste rather than a class label, which has borne the stigma of untouchability because of the extreme poverty impurity, and pollution connected with their traditional occupations. Historically disadvantaged Dalits were suppressed and oppressed physically and economically in Indian society. Inequalities based on caste divisions are fundamentally inhumanity and the caste system as an oppressive ideological system represents the scheme of power, domination, privilege, and hierarchy. In Indian society from primeval to the present and in future the discrimination takes place against Dalits in various forms from the two-tumbler system to the bar on wearing slippers. The caste discrimination, untouchability, caste hierarchal relations of dominance, spine-chilling atrocities, and subordinations circumstances have exasperated and caused the rise of Dalit consciousness. These objective conditions have transformed into sites of struggle when the Dalits are affronted with the real operation of liberal principles of equality, freedom, fraternity, and social justice. In Indian society, caste conflicts were widespread that lies at the structural dimensions of the form of untouchability and economic inequality. Caste-based discrimination can be retraced and deconstructed in all spheres of society to combat it. Earlier untouchability was practiced after the emergency of the constitution former changed its form and appeared as discrimination against Dalits. In this connection, the present paper made an attempt to focus the light on the untouchability and discrimination against Dalits at educational institutions, judiciary, power, media, industry, administration, and civil society