Indian Culture & the Dalit Class
The economic boom in India which is riding on a burgeoning technology and services sectors has not reached the deep recesses of Indian culture, particularly in rural areas of India where culture is entrenched and access to the new economy is constrained. Producer Siobhan Sinnerton and Ramita Navai from Unreported World expose the terrible circumstances of the 170 million Dalits -- the broken people or the untouchables -- to light. The most oppressed group of humans anywhere on earth, the Dalits inhabit the bottom of the Indian caste system -- a place as symbolic as it is real. This paper very briefly considers the Dalit's existence from a social conflict perspective, a structural-functional perspective, and from a symbolic interactions perspective.
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