Very Short Answer Questions
1. What is discrimination?
2. What is prejudice?
3. Define the terms, 'Bonded labour' or 'Bandhua Majdoor'.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are the adverse effects of prejudice?
Define the term 'Stereotypes'. Give two examples.
3. Why do the Indian Constitution provide for special provisions to uplift the untouchables?
IV Long Answer Questions
1. Discuss the evils of caste inequalities prevailing in India since ancient times.
2. Explain untouchability. Write down the constitutional provisions that promote equality and
abolish untouchability.
3. Describe the role of Gandhiji in removing untouchability.
Answers
1 - Discrimination is the act of making distinctions between human beings based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they are perceived to belong.
2 - Prejudice is an affective feeling towards a person based on their perceived group membership. The word is often used to refer to a preconceived, usually unfavourable, evaluation of another person based.
3 - Peonage, also known as debt slavery or bonded labour, is the pledge of a person's services as security for the repayment for a debt or other obligation, where the terms of the repayment are not clearly or reasonably stated, and the person who is holding the debt thus has some control over the laborer.
1 - Prejudice makes the victim feel less than fully human. When people are undervalued by others, their self-esteem suffers and they stop trying to improve themselves. Prejudice can often lead to bullying and other forms of discrimination .
2 - In social psychology, a stereotype is an over-generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group. The type of expectation can vary; it can be, for example, an expectation about the group's personality, preferences, or ability.
3 - Constitution provides safeguards to religious and linguistic minorities as a part of our Fundamental Rights.
Thus, safeguards are needed to protect minority communities against the possibility of being culturally dominated by the majority.
1 - The caste system has many negative impacts on the growth of society. It stopped people from availing of their rights. It leads to widespread discrimination and the feeling of inferiority complex among people of the lower caste. They were even deprived of their basic rights of food, cloth, and even to follow a god.
2 - An Act to prescribe punishment for the preaching and to practice of "Untouchability" for the enforcement of any disability arising therefrom and for matters connected therewith.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:
The Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1955 is an Act to prescribe punishment for the preaching and practice of untouchability for the enforcement of any disability arising therefrom Art. 17 of the Constitution of India specifies that untouchability is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden to a Court is left with no option and is bound to pass a sentence of imprisonment and also fine while convicting accused under Section for the Protection of Civil Rights Act to be where it is proved that accused prevented Harijans from tarring water on the ground of untouchability, Conviction was held to be justified.
3 - He pushed the removal of untouchability to the forefront as early as 1920 at the Nagpur session of the Congress that adopted the non-co-operation resolution. Gandhi declared that the removal of untouchability was an essential condition for his concept of Swaraj.