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Bookmark or Share- Dalit | Meaning, Caste, & Facts | BritannicaDalit, term used to refer to any member of a wide range of social groups that were historically marginalized in Hindu caste society. The official designation Scheduled Caste is the most common term now used in India for people in these groups, although members of the Scheduled Castes often prefer.
- Dalit - WikipediaA group of dalit women in 2021. Dalit (from Sanskrit: दलित, romanized: dalita meaning "broken/scattered"), also some of them previously known as untouchables, is the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent.
- In pictures: The many lives of India's Dalits - BBC20 December 2023. ASHA THADANI. In the image above, a Dalit (formerly known as untouchable) woman worker limps past an open-cast coal mine in India's Jharkhand state, where underground fires have...
- India's Dalits still fighting untouchability - BBC News27 June 2012. AFP. Dalits in India still do the most menial jobs. Dalits are at the bottom of the Hindu caste system and despite laws to protect them, they still face widespread discrimination...
- The Dalit: Born into a life of discrimination and stigmaThe Dalit, commonly known as the ‘untouchables’ in India and other South Asian countries, are born into a lifetime of marginalisation, exclusion and human rights violations. They are strictly ‘ranked’ – based on their descent – and are thereby placed at the lowest echelon of society’s classes.
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