Vulnerably positioned at the bottom of India’s caste, class and gender hierarchies, Dalit women experience endemic gender-and-caste discrimination and violence as the outcome of severely imbalanced social, economic and political power equations. Their socio-economic vulnerability and lack of political voice, when combined with the dominant risk factors of being Dalit and female, increase their exposure to potentially violent situations while simultaneously reducing their ability to escape. Violence against dalit women presents clear evidence of widespread exploitation and discrimination against these women subordinated in terms of power relations to men in a patriarchal society, as also against their communities based on caste. Violence against Dalit women is to deny them opportunities, choices and freedoms at multiple levels, undermining not only dalit women’s dignity and self-respect, but also their right to development. Vulnerably positioned at the bottom of India’s gender, caste and class hierarchies, Dalit women experience the outcome of severely imbalanced social, economic and political power equations in terms of endemic caste-class-gender discrimination and violence. This book enables the reader to understand the interface of gender and caste and to participate in its critical analysis. The book will be essential reading in the disciplines of politics, gender, social exclusion studies, sociology and social anthropology.
Introduction — Dalit Women and Caste System — Caste, Gender and Violence — Dimensions of Social Exclusion — Human Rights and Dignity of Dalit Women — Dalit Women: Struggles for Self Liberation — Social and Religious Struggle of Dalit Women in India — Dalit Women and Quest for Justice — Problems of Rural Dalit Women in India — Bibliography — Index
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