Question

The weaker and backward sections of the society are protected by whom Police, people, state or Dalits?

Answer 1

WHO ARE SCHEDULED CASTES?

Dalit communities continue to face threats of violence, eviction and withholding of wages, apart from severe oppression and ostracism. Representative image. (Photo: Reuters)

Scheduled castes are sub-communities within the framework of the Hindu caste system who have historically faced deprivation, oppression, and extreme social isolation in India on account of their perceived ‘low status’.

Only marginalised Hindu communities can be deemed Scheduled Castes in India, according to The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950.

Scheduled caste communities were considered avarna, or outside the existing varna system. They were considered to be a section of people in Hindu society who are not from the four major varnas, i.e., Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra.

Vivek Kumar, Professor of Sociology, Centre for the Study of Social System, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University 

Those who belonged to one of the four major varnas are called Savarna.

The Hindu four-tier caste system, or varna system, forced these communities into work that predominantly involved sanitation, disposal of animal carcasses, cleaning of excreta, and other tasks that involved contact with “unclean” materials.

The communities adapted the name Dalit, or Harijan, which meant ‘children of god.’

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The avarna communities were also referred to as “Untouchables”. They were prohibited from drinking water from shared water sources, living in or using areas frequented by “higher castes,” and faced social and economic isolation, often being denied rights and privileges that many born into savarna castes consider “fundamental rights”.

The 2011 Census places the number of scheduled castes in India at 16.6 percent of the total population, or approximately 166,635,700 people.

WHERE DID THE TERM 'SCHEDULED CASTES' ORIGINATE?

The Government of India Act, implemented by the British in 1935, carried this definition of the term “scheduled caste,” in Part 14 of the Act, and the same definition continued to be used by the Indian government post-Independence.

..the scheduled castes “means such castes, races or tribes or parts of or groups within castes, races or tribes, being castes, races, tribes, parts or groups which appear to His Majesty in Council to correspond to the classes of persons formerly known as “ the depressed classes”, as His Majesty in Council may specify

Government of India Act, 1935 

Answer 2

Answer:

police is the correct answer

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