Discrimination In Mahatma Gandhi

INTRODUCTION:
The highest number of people who face caste-based discrimination is in India and other South Asian states. People are tortured on the basis of their caste. They are denied education, food, basic amenities and many such essential needs resulting in a very poor lifestyle for lower caste people. This until very recently was not addressed in most of the human rights issues ever taken up or by any of the NGO’s dealing with human rights issues. It had only been brought up in the news as to crimes that had been committed against them which weren’t further addressed. Even though the Indian Constitution provides a right to life to every citizen none of these individuals were helped to procure those rights but just made to face discrimination

The way Gandhi addresses modern civilization is by stating the failure to encourage the moral and divine self that is responsible for many dismays of modern civilization. By this I believe he meant to say that people, to suppress the others formed the caste-based discrimination. Though Gandhi was willing to fight the battle against the intolerable religious practices, he stood against the practice of untouchability and patriarchy. As for Gandhi true civilization was a method of organization that lays down the “path of duty” obtained by acquiring mastery over the mind and passions. Gandhi’s understanding in procuring non-discrimination was built in a way that one serves to humanity and by that one can help in removing societal issues like patriarchy and untouchability. Gandhi’s thoughts revolved around removing discrimination by non-violence, by his ways he only tried to bring people at par and not be suppressed by upper class people. The reason behind him working for discrimination against women and caste-based discrimination was to address the human rights issues of these people and bring them to power with the society by helping them attain their

Dalit is a backward community in India, which is known as the lowest community of people in India. These people are considered to be untouchables. The Dalits are described as the people outside the system so inferior to the other castes that they are addressed to people as pollutants and thus “untouchables”. They are denied basic human rights even though the Indian Constitution talks about Human Rights under Article 21 but they are never provided with any. Even as outcasts they have themselves divided into further castes. Article 17 of the Indian Constitution also abolished untouchability, the practice still continues in violation of UDHR, Indian Constitution and various laws of supreme power. The practice continues to determine the socio-economic and religious standing of those at the bottom of the caste