NEW DELHI, July 27 (Xinhua) -- Untouchability of low caste people is still alive in India's countryside although fear of law and rising low caste politicians seem to have curbed its crude manifestations, said the Times of India electronic edition on Monday.
A government-sponsored survey by National Law School in Bangalore, southern India, on the impact of Protection of Civil Rights Act on untouchability said recently that villages, the den of this decadent practice, are far from being zero-untouchability zones.
The survey results came from villages of the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and West Bengal, said the report.
As many as 516 of a total of 648 Dalits, or low caste people, surveyed said they were not allowed to enter Hindu temples while 151 said they were not allowed to take out processions of their Hindu deities, said the report.
Meanwhile, Dalit participation in social activities has improved, with 591 invited for wedding feasts. But 29 percent said they had to wait for others to finish eating before they can eat.
According to the survey, 7 percent of Dalits said they were barred from entering main streets of villages while 7 percent said they could not wear sandals and walk in front of a dominant caste member. Nine percent said they had to talk with folded hands, according to the report.
没有评论:
发表评论