The Economic Condition Of Dalits In Rural Area Of Karnatake State

India is an old great nation with wonderful classic culture. BC 3000-4000ago, there was an extraordinary classification system—castes system. By the 20C80, the caste system have been making for the modern times, there was a new word on the research of this system, that's Dalit caste. They are the backward castes who have been pressed and exploited. The researchers pay attention to the survival condition of Dalit castes.The research object of this thesis is the economic condition of Dalit caste in rural Karnatake state which lies in south India. At first, it makes a simple construction on the caste system, the origin and signification of Dalit appellation, Dalits in the Karnatake state. That can pave the way for the following research.The second chapter of this thesis is constructed by three parts that explain the daily life situation, the occupation, the condition of income and debt. These three aspects are related to each other. Because most of Dalits also take part in the traditional agriculture, meantime, they can't have the land occupy right. So they are lack of production-activity and regular income. The traditional occupation structure and lacking of the land occupy right result in the low income, popular in debt, lacking of daily life materials,public education,medical infrastructure and traffic infrastructure. But India center government and states government have set up many kinds of plans to improve the economic condition of Dalit castes.The third chapter of this thesis is to explain Dalits of Kanartaka are in what kind of economic relation of agriculture. The vast majority of them are small fanners, marginal farmers and agricultural workers. Since the existence of the debt, some people become boundary labors. The status of Dalits economic backwardness can't be reversed fundamentally, because the land reform isn't completed absolutely. The land issue of Dalits has not been resolved.In a word, to improve the daily life situation of Dalit castes is one of the main points of India government work. This work is full of meaning but very difficult too.