Truth About Dalits |
| Name of book: | Truth About Dalits: Caste System And Untouchability |
| Author: | Oliver D Souza |
| Author bio: | Oliver is a journalist, author and human rights activist. He has written on social, religious and political developments in the country during the last twenty years. |
| Blurb: | The Absolute Truth About Dalits, Caste System And Untouchability. Separates the reality from the misinformation. Accomplished and well-known author. |
| Price: | $9.95 |
| Book Website: | Get Ebook Now |
| Description: |
- "Truth About Dalits: Caste System And Untouchability" is the single source to effortlessly get a grasp of the Caste System, plight of the Dalits and Untouchability in its entirety. It extensively takes you right from the start of the Caste System around 1500 BC to the present pathetic state that the Dalits find themselves in because of caste discrimination. You get to know the Caste system, Untouchabilty and the Dalit problem as it worked in ancient India and as it works out today. It delves deep into the Caste System and the Dalit question from multiple prespectives, covering 83 different topics, illustrated with 29 exceptional photographs.
- "Truth About Dalits: Caste System And Untouchability" provides irrefutable evidence and traces the roots of shocking Dalit problems, be it atrocities and discrimination, educational backwardness, unemployment, conversion, pitiful condition of dalit women, religious identity et al., and then objectively analyzes the current situation. Through its pages, it also reveals the very rarely talked about shocking elements about the Caste System and the plight of the Dalits.
- Here's the Book Contents:
Terminology
Introduction
Leading Light
1. Caste System: Unparalleled Discrimination
- Caste System; Origin, Four Varna System
- Classical Outcastes
- Classical Untouchables
- Caste Code (Rules)
- Heirarchy
- Enforcement Of Caste System
- Perpetuation Of Caste; marriage
- Permanent Caste Status
- Untenable Justification
- A Casteist National Psyche
2. Dalits, A Crushed, Broken, Torn People
- Dalit Identity:Who are Dalits?
- The Plight Of The Dalits - Atrocities
- Prevalence of Untouchability And Discrimination
- Healthcare Status
- Political Status
- Legitimate Demands
- What is The Solution?
- The Upper Caste Apprehension Regarding Conversion
- The Other Side
3. Hindus By Cooption
- Never Were Hindus
- Nothing In Common With Hindu Gods
- Expedient Hindus
- Dalits And Proselytization
- Dalitbahujans Must Take Their Leap Of Faith
4. Dalit Experience Of Pain
- Covert Slavery
- Modern Day Atrocities
- Increased Level Of Atrocities
- Role of State
5. Dalit Women Face The Worst
- Thrice Wronged
- Pathetic Status Quo
- No Justice
- Most Neglected, Untapped Potential
- Importance Of Christian Role
6. Uneducated Because Of Historical Wrongs
- Historically Excluded
- Present Day Impediments To Education
- Core Need, Aspiration And Evangelical Effort
- Ideological Model For Christian Dalit Education
7. Economic Progress Eludes Dalits
- Exploitative Economic Order
- Dignity Of Work Destroyed
- Coercive Hegemony
- Modern Day Economic Plight
- Bonded Labor
- Unemployment Rate
- Additional Causes For Present Unemployment And Poverty
- Dalit Middle Class: An Emancipation Model
- A Pressing Need
8. Even Non-Hindus Suffer Caste
- If You’re A Dalit Christian, A Paragraph Makes The D ifference
-Dalit Muslims Are ‘Arzal’
- Dalit Sikhs Build Their Own Gurudwaras
9. In Search Of A Spiritual Place
- Dalit Movement Through The Ages
- Hindutva: A Counter Movement
- Need For Action
10. God Is A Dalit
- Inevitability Of Dalit Theology
- God Is A Dalit
- Mixed Response
- Danger Of Exclusivity
- The Indianization Trap
11. Christian Role In Dalit Emancipation
- Low Caste Church
- Evangelicals; Spiritually Emancipating the people
- Catholics; Testimony Through Deeds
- Mainline Protestants Doing Their Bit
- Role Of Civil Society
- Attempts To End Dalit Emancipation
12. Anti-Christian Violence And The Dalit Connection
- Uniform Pattern Of Violence
- Causes of Anti-Christian Violence
- Two Objectives, Little Success
- Role Of Law And Oder Machinery And Government
- The Perpetrators
- Talibanizing India
13. Truth About Dalit Conversion
- Conversion To Escape Caste
- Conversions Of Faith
- Irresponsibile Publicity
- Age Of Personal Evangelism
- Charity Begins At Home
14. Impediments To Dalit Emancipation
- India: A Diverse Nation
- Principal Impediment
- They Keep Casteism Alive
- Turning A Blind Eye
- Vested Interests
15. Dalits At The Crossroads
- Forced To Choose
- Political Consolidation
- A Call To Arms
- The Conversion Option
- The Way Forward
16. References
17. Annexure
- Arithmetic Of Possible Education Models
- Sudra Castes And Dalit Castes Names State-wise.
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