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Vulnerable sections (DALITS (Issue of using the term DALIT (Evolution of…

- - - - The advisory from the Union Information and
        Broadcasting Ministry to the media saysthat they
        "may11 refrain from using the term 'Dalit' while referring to SC
      - Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court
        only wanted the Centre to consider the question ofissuing such direction to the media and take a
        suitable decision upon it.
      - Moreover, the l&B Ministry's advisory is confusing
        as it uses the words "for all official transactions, matters'
      - About the term
        
        National Commission for
        Scheduled Castes disfavoured the use of term
        
        It felt it as unconstitutional as belonging to SC is a legal status conferred on members, named in the list notified by the President under Art 341 of the Constitution
        
        "Scheduled castes" is the most appropriate way to adress them
        
        Dr. Ambedkar argued that the broken men
        were a defeated tribe of the constant tribalwarfare in the primitive society
    - - This term has powerful and emotive meaning
      - While adressing, the term may refer to selfrespect,
        assertion, solidarity andopposition to caste oppression.
      - In past Dalits were referred to as "Untouchables",but official term used during British time was 'depressed classes"
      - MKG called them the children of God
        
        the community
        rejected this appellation as patronising and sanctimonious.
      - Some decades ago, the community began
        to refer to themselves as Dal its
      - Evolution It reflects the struggle of a
        community to reassert its identity and Jay claim to their rights, that were denied to them for centuries