Question

Explain untouchability. Write down the constitutional provisions that tend to promote equality and abolish
untouchability
Describe the role of Gandhiji in removing untouchability.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Untouchability, in its literal sense, is the practice of ostracising a minority group by segregating them from the mainstream by social custom or legal mandate. The term is most commonly associated with treatment of the Dalit communities in the Indian subcontinent who were considered "polluting".

Untouchability” is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden. The enforcement of any disability arising out of “Untouchability” shall be an offence punishable in accordance with law. Article 17 of the constitution abolished the practice of untouchability and made its practice a punishable offence.

In 1932, Gandhi founded the Harijan Sevak Sangh as part of his efforts to eradicate the concept of 'untouchability' from India's caste system. He put his close friend, the pioneering industrialist Ghanshyam Das Birla, in charge of the organisation.

Answer 2

Answer:

Pre-determined mindset of people against some groups of people considered unworthy of even touch as it may pollute them.