Question

D. Answer the questions in brief. 1. On what basis are people discriminated again 2. Who are Harijans? 3. What is untouchability? 4. What is a stereotype? 5. What is a prejudice?​

Answer 1

Answer:

• Discrimination is the act of making unjustified distinctions between human beings based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they are perceived to belong.[1] People may be discriminated on the basis of race, gender, age, religion, or sexual orientation, as well as other categories.
• Untouchable, also called Dalit, officially Scheduled Caste, formerly Harijan, in traditional Indian society, the former name for any member of a wide range of low-caste Hindu groups and any person outside the caste system. The use of the term and the social disabilities associated with it were declared illegal in the constitutions adopted by the Constituent Assembly of India in 1949 and of Pakistan in 1953.
• Gandhi invented the term ‘Harijan’ to be used for the ‘untouchable’ community which was popularised during the All India Harijan Tour. According to him, the usage of the word Harijan would spare people from using any reproachable term for the lower caste communities.