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Historical Injustice In India

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Every human society has an ambient feature of hierarchical group identities, whether based on ethnicity, race, religion, or in case of India “caste”.In Indian context some social groups are historically been vulnerable to hierarchical vicissitude and in these, Scheduled Castes (SCs) is being the most discriminated. Chandhoke (2015) explaining the concept of historical injustice argued that it takes note of a variety of historical wrongs but injustices like slavery and “untouchability” fall into a different category altogether. Though, all cases of injustice cause deep harm and warrant retribution, reparation, public acceptance of wrongdoing and apologies, this category; past wrongs, continues into the present in some form or the other, and …show more content…

Even after these multiple disadvantages it is expected that they will participate in social, economic, and cultural transactions as equals (Chandhoke, 2015) is far from veracity.As evident from the study (Lanjouw and Rao, 2011) of two villages named Palanpur and Sugao that Palanpur (Uttar Pradesh), which is attributed with largely ineffective land reform and politics of identity, dominated the “politics of development”, the deeply entrenched inequalities have resulted in an uphill battle for more about voice and respect than economic well-being for lower social groups. Sugao (Maharashtra), on the other hand, where land reform has worked relatively well, and where the economic vitality of the city of Mumbai resulted in the migration-driven empowerment of people from all castes, has benefited migrants from such processes for a long time and has consequently not experienced sticky caste-based inequality traps in the same way that Palanpur …show more content…

Despite extensive social engineering India seems to be an unusually immobile society. This unusually low rate of social mobility, he argued, is the result of high rates of marital endogamy among social groups and within caste groups of the Hindu population in India. A study (Spears, 2016) found lower caste people in rural north India evaluate their lives to be worse than higher caste people, and this difference is not explained by poverty, suggesting that wealth cannot fully account for the average difference in life satisfaction across caste groups. Rather there appears to be differences in life satisfaction by caste, even at the same level of socio-economic

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