WHO ARE DALITS WHY ARE THEY CALLED SO
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dalits are poor caste people in India
The Dalits are a significant class of people in India who have been the ‘Depressed Classes’ over the centuries. They can also be regarded as the backward classes.
EXPLANATION:
The word ‘Dalit’ comes from Sanskrit which means ‘scattered or broken’. The depressed classes were so looked down upon by the higher class Hindus that they were not included in the Varna or Caste System of Vedic Hinduism.
Gandhiji tried to uplift the position of this depressed class and named them ‘Hari jans’ which means ‘the people of God or Hari’. But the people of this class vehemently protested against this name. They wanted to highlight their pain and downtrodden condition. So they called themselves the Dalit or ‘the trampled ones’.