What’s in a name?

What’s in a name?

Article

1. Advisory by ministry of information and communication to media, from refraining to use the term Dalit , have created the controversy .

Historical evolution

2.  In earlier time Dalit used to be called as untouchables.

3.  Official term used for Dalit, in British time was depressed class

4.  Mahatma Gandhi gave the name harijan to the Dalit, so as to remove the stigma of pollution from them.

5. Under Indian constitution Dalit are known as schedule caste, under article 341.

6.  In recent decades the community asserts to call itself as Dalit.

Debate against the word using Dalit

7.  National commission did not favor the use of word Dalit.|

8.  Dalit should be called as schedule caste, according to the constitutional mandate under article 341.

9.  Nagpur bench of Bombay high court , directed government , to take decision on not using the word Dalit by media.

Importance of the word Dalit

10.  Dalit literally means downtrodden or broken, it reflects the struggle of the community to have rights which they have been denied for centuries.

11.  Dalit is an expression of self-empowerment.

The core of humanism, freedom, liberty is strongly reinforced in the word Dalit.