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| Article Name : | | | HUMAN RIGHTS OF DALITS AND THEIR VIOLATION IN INDIA: A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS | | Author Name : | | | Shailaja Saibanna | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-5939 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | The concept and practice of human rights is the phenomena of any modern society. Since time immemorial, the story of human rights has been the story of human wrongs. More than one-sixth of India’s population, approximately 170 million people live in sub-human survival, eschewed by much of the society because of their position as ‘untouchables’ or ‘Dalits’ which literally means ‘broken’ people. National legislations and constitutional provisions serve only to cover up the realities of discrimination and atrocities faced by the ‘society created sub-humans’ living below ‘pollution line’. The present paper tries to find the nature and magnitude of atrocities on Dalits. It has dealt with the conceptual category of ‘Human Rights’ and ‘Dalit’ and its historical underpinning for being discriminated. It also deals with the sociological and legal constraints for Dalits getting justice. The paper also endeavours to trace the compatibility of Human Rights with social order in villages and has tried to trace the nature and magnitude of violation of Human Rights of Dalits. | | Keywords : | | |
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