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The Reason Of Conversion By Untouchable In India After World War Ⅱ

Posted on:2011-08-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X JinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360332455435Subject:World History
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Dalits are called untouchables, Hindus are a group of outsiders, exclusion, the concept of purity and impurity is the caste Hindus and untouchables of the difference. "Manu" is the basis for the existence untouchables. Under untouchability, Dalits are believed to be unclean, and have contagious, They are a group which are not to be touched, even the most basic human rights are not haven, they are very poor. As the British colonial rule, capitalism have a large development, secular India are beginning of the weakening of the caste system constraints, after independence in India, the government's legal and economic support for the dalits, Dalits have been greatly improved in economic status, they are having consciousness as an equal human. The decline of the caste system, India is not completely secular, so that the caste system in India is still a very big influence; Hindu religion other than the doctrine of equality advocated, no hope in the struggle against evil in the more attractive untouchables; Caste among the self-enclosed serious, can not exceed the limits. These are blocked at the bottom of the dalits community in India rose to a higher caste of opportunity, loss of status through the Hindu caste up the opportunity to change their environment, Dalits have to change only through the conversion of all its own, finally Abe-quart conversion to Buddhism as an example again the above evidence for several reasons.
Keywords/Search Tags:Dalits, conversion, caste
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