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Volume : V, Issue : IX, October - 2015

STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE: A STUDY OF CASTE IN GUJARAT

Arif Rasheed, Falak Butool

By : Laxmi Book Publication

Abstract :

Indian democracy is more than six decades old but a large number of its citizens are still yearning for equal treatment. Identity based discrimination is practiced in different visible and invisible forms across the country. Gujarat is certainly one of the most developed States of India but a large number of cases involving structural violence are found in this State as well. The caste identity is a major factor discriminating dalit community from other hindus and they are not permitted to freely enter the house of upper caste, religious places and donot have access to community drinking water. The act of keeping a particular section of the society out of touch is an example of structural violence. The present paper focuses on the instances of discrimination faced by people of lower strata in administrative, social and economic spheres in this techno advance State of India.

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    Arif Rasheed, Falak Butool(2015). STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE: A STUDY OF CASTE IN GUJARAT. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. V, Issue. IX, http://isrj.org/UploadedData/7197.pdf

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