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Untouchability has been outlawed in India, Nepal and Pakistan. However, "untouchability" has not been legally defined. [citation needed] The origin of untouchability and its historicity are still debated. A 2020 study of a sample of households in India concludes that "Notwithstanding the likelihood of under-reporting of the practice of ...
Bahishkrit Hitakarini Sabha (Hindi: बहिष्कृत हितकारिणी सभा) is a central institution formed by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar for removing difficulties of the untouchables and placing their grievances before government. In order to bring about a new socio-political awareness among the untouchables, Dr.Babasaheb ...
Specialization in the History of India, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, and the Ambedkar Movement Eleanor Zelliot (October 7, 1926 – June 5, 2016) was an American writer, professor of Carleton College [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and specialist on the India, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, women of Asia, Untouchables , and social movements .
Harijan Sevak Sangh is a non-profit organisation founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1932 to eradicate untouchability in India, working for Harijan or Dalit people and upliftment of Depressed Class of India. [1] It is headquartered at Kingsway Camp in Delhi, with branches in 26 states across India. [2]
Tamil Nadu Untouchability Eradication Front (TNUEF) is one of the organisations of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). It works to eradicate the untouchability and other forms of caste oppression. It was the key organisation which worked in razing the untouchability wall at Uthapuram. [1] [2]
Harijan (lit.children of God, a term coined by Gandhi to refer to dalits or untouchables) was a weekly magazine founded by Mahatma Gandhi that was published from 1933 to 1955 except for a hiatus during the Quit India movement of the 1940s.
He continued his missionary work for the Prarthana Samaj. His efforts were devoted mainly to the removal of untouchability in India. In 1905 he established a night school for the children of untouchables in Pune, and in 1906 he established the Depressed Classes Mission in (Bombay). Also in 1910, he founded Murali Pratibandhak Sabha, and in 1912 ...
Although the word is now quite widespread, it still has deep roots in a tradition of political radicalism inspired by the figure of B. R. Ambedkar." They went on to suggest that its use risked erroneously labelling the entire population of untouchables in India as being united by a radical politics. [12]