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Caste Discrimination Case Study

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Caste System Modernized This article describes how the caste discrimination is working in the modern India. We will see how even after 60 years of independence Ambedkar's ways for the eradication of the caste discrimination are still not finding their goal. The main reason behind this has been the increased complexities in the understanding of the caste system that have mingled with other things to give it a more nuanced form. Like everything else caste system in India has also grown more complex than ever. It has been modernized. People try to justify the caste discrimination on a logical basis. The case considered in the article is about a dalit man who faced many difficulties while he was doing job at an NGO viz. ActionAid. He was not …show more content…

This continued to happen until he approached the ActionAid International Board. Thirty members from the board wrote to the Country Director of the organization and demanded enquiry into the allegation levelled by him. The enquiry committee consisted of two ActionAid officer and a Gujarat based dalit activist. On the day of the enquiry only two of them participated and the absent was replaced by the facilitator senior HR Manager. The irony was that the accused supervised the case as the manager himself was involved in the discrimination. The consequence of this wrong doing was felt by the victim during the whole enquiry as he felt that the manager constantly pushed the focus away from the actual issues. The committee report didn’t bother about the satisfaction of the victim, it was more of a formality. The case described above is a good example of not only how caste discrimination is still prevalent in India but also how it has changed its form. The cases of caste based discrimination are now not easy to be identified and can be easily manipulated to look rational. The upper caste …show more content…

They have no problem if those who had been oppressed in their lives get some special treatment from the government but this should strictly be economy based, not caste based. The counter argument that pro-caste based reservation people give that since exploitation was done to a particular caste there should be no problem in giving reservation of caste basis. Another example specific given by facts that supports upper caste argument of caste based reservation being wrongfully used is about who Meena's really are. Meena caste is based in Rajasthan and they are given reservation due to their tribal nature. It is one of the influential and land owning caste in Rajasthan hence saying that they are not having the resources would be

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