Question

What are the evil effects of untouchability ?​

Answer 1

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⇨ Untouchability leads to social discrimination.

⇨ It damages social harmony.

⇨ It has created wide social distance between the two groups, touchable and untouchables.

⇨ Untouchability perpetuates inequality.

⇨ It cannot support the development of healthy democratic tradition .

⇨ Untouchability has damaged the self-image and prestige of the scheduled castes.

⇨ it has developed a sense of inferiority among the scheduled castes.

⇨ The practice of untouchability has brought down the image of the Indians in the eyes of the foreigners.

Answer 2

1. Untouchability divided the Hindu society into the ‘touchable’ and ‘untouchable’ groups and served to develop mutual dislike, contempt and sometimes even enmity between the two. Damaged social harmony and created wide social distance between the two groups.

2. Since more than 1/6 of the total population of this land was labelled as “untouchable” it social -economic and educational progress was unwarranted and halted for centuries.

3. Untouchability perpetuates inequality. Hence it cannot support the development of health) democratic traditions. It has affected our democratic system very badly.

4. Untouchability provided scope for religious conversions. Those untouchables who got dis­illusioned with the Hindu society got converted to other religions such as Christianity or Islam. Dr. Ambedkar himself had joined Buddhism at the far end of his life in protest against the caste- controlled Hinduism