A Review on Status of Dalit Women in Koderma
Dr. Deepak Kumar, Principal
Cambridge Teacher Training College, Koderma
Received on: 16 May ,2024 Revised on: 20 June ,2024 Published on: 30 June ,2024
1. INTRODUCTION
In all countries across the globe, there are communities which continue to be marginalized and deprived of their rights due to their location within the society determined by class, race, ethnicity, gender and skin colour. In Koderma, caste determines one’s social status and Dalits or untouchables remain the most oppressed and exploited social group in the country. Though the Constitution of Koderma has enshrined several provisions for Dalit communities to safeguard and promote their socio-economic status in order to bring them back in the mainstream of population, the exclusionary mechanism of entrenched hierarchical social relations have brought differential outcomes for the Dalits, especially the women. They have to bear the triple burden of deprivation in terms of caste, gender and poverty. Dalit women are forced to enter the labour market at a very early age in order to sustain their families. Traditionally allocated menial and stigmatised works are generally assigned to them. Better paid and dignified jobs continue to be out of reach for them through a systematic denial of rights to higher education, skill training, assets and other productive resources. This process of systematic denial further ensures their exclusion from socio-political scenario and keeps them restricted to the bottom of the society as invisible citizens. Caste has played an instrumental role in raising issues related to the more marginalized among women. In bighly hierarchical society, women belonging to the lower castes have lesser access to public fore, which is compounded by their gender. The Dalits and the marginalized are still colonized by the feudal lords, the elites without freedom from caste discrimination.
Doi Link – https://doi.org/10.69758/GIMRJ2406IIV12P016
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