http://www.gowanusbooks.com/dalit.htm
The Dalits are treated worse than animals. Their presence is usually banned from upper-class localities. Even then they are bound to hang clay pots from their necks so that they may not pollute the streets of the privileged by their spittle. They carry brooms tied to their bodies so that while passing through such 'upper lanes' they can wipe away their footprints.
India's "Untouchables" Face Violence, Discrimination
More than 160 million people in India are considered "Untouchable"—people tainted by their birth into a caste system that deems them impure, less than human.
India Together: Dalits rights and issues: An overview - February 2002
Some recent publications give an idea of the force of the Dalit intellectual movement and they exhibit an intolerance for the continuation of the oppressive system. The provocative tone of the book "Why I am not a Hindu" by Kanchan Illiah is an illustration of the radical thoughts of some Dalit activists. "The caste system that subjugated more than one fifth of the population to levels worse than animals' for more than two millennia and which represented institutionalization of the most heinous inequality …"
why muslims who moved to paksitan during partition are called muhajirs?
The definition of the term 'Muhajir' is 'Immigrant' or someone who migrates from one place to another.
I suppose we're all muhajirs if living out of homeland. But after becoming a citizen, the label is no longer valid because you identify with the nation whose nationality you hold.
☼Quod Me Nutrit Me Destruit☼
☼Appear as you are, Be as you appear.☼ (Rumi)
Muslims had a choice to leave India, it's a pity they never did.
So you are implying that Muslims should leave India now or keep on facing the wreath of Hindus. What about Dalits , where do you want to throw them away.
The definition of the term 'Muhajir' is 'Immigrant' or someone who migrates from one place to another.
I suppose we're all muhajirs if living out of homeland. But after becoming a citizen, the label is no longer valid because you identify with the nation whose nationality you hold.
exactly but they are still called muhajirs in pakistan. My grandparents moved to india during partition..we were not called by any such name.
^They're the only party that runs on the Mohajir slogan, for whatever reason. And they're regional. Other nationalist parties have votebank across the board.
Personally, and i agree with Chintu, once you're born in Pakistan/India, live in Pakistan/India, know everything you know about Pakistan/India, then you are no longer a mohajir. The ancestoral status of migration simply does not apply to all generations.
Why people of Muslim faith have castes too, only they are not called castes but something else. A famous man said don't through rock when living inside a glass house
Why people of Muslim faith have castes too, only they are not called castes but something else. A famous man said don't through rock when living inside a glass house
simple - you have the shia sunni deobandi whabi ahmadi barelvi just to name a few.
you don't call them caste but it is still categorization of people by birth. intermingling amongst these classes and castes are prohibited - you bomb and kill each other!
Atleast the Indian castes, they just didn't touch each other - you guys bomb each other for heavens sake!
Don't tell me you don't know these castes exist in Islam
...........2500 yrs of Aparthied State...............what a shame India has to bear................
