ROLE OF STATE AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN UPLIFTING DALIT AND MINORITY WOMEN

Author – ADITYA PARASHAR, STUDENT AT ARMY INSTITUTE OF LAW

Best Citation – ADITYA PARASHAR, ROLE OF STATE AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT IN UPLIFTING DALIT AND MINORITY WOMEN, Journal on Vulnerable Community Development, 1 (1) of 2023, Pg. 99-104, ISBN – 978-81-961097-0-7.
Abstract

From a very long time, Dalit and minority women in India have been facing exploitation, oppression, atrocities and barbaric acts done to them, they do not have rights and liberties and have been facing oppression of higher castes, their rights are also regulated and controlled by upper caste peoples and economic dominant classes. The extreme expression of violence, exploitation, and oppression against them is visible in forms of hunger, malnutrition, diseases, physical and mental torture, rape, illiteracy, ill-health, unemployment, insecurity and inhuman treatment. They are the victims of Feudalism, casteism, and patriarchy which have made their lives miserable, due to which their majority of population lives under poverty and extreme conditions. In the present age of modernism and post-modernism, they are still living in the dark age of savagery. Caste has played an instrumental role in raising issues related Dalit women. In Indian society, women belonging to the lower castes are among the most vulnerable section of society. The Dalits and the marginalized are still colonized by the higher caste people and the elites without freedom from caste discrimination