{"id":27625,"date":"2018-10-23T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=27625"},"modified":"2018-10-23T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:38:10","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s in a name?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/whats-in-a-name\/article24876537.ece\">What\u2019s in a name?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Article<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Advisory by ministry of information and communication to media, from refraining to use the term Dalit , have created the controversy .<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Historical evolution<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 In earlier time Dalit used to be called as untouchables.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 Official term used for Dalit, in British time was depressed class<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0 Mahatma Gandhi gave the name harijan to the Dalit, so as to remove the stigma of pollution from them.<\/p>\n<p>5. Under Indian constitution Dalit are known as schedule caste, under article 341.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0 In recent decades the community asserts to call itself as Dalit.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Debate against the word using Dalit<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7.\u00a0 National commission did not favor the use of word Dalit.|<\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0 Dalit should be called as schedule caste, according to the constitutional mandate under article 341.<\/p>\n<p>9.\u00a0 Nagpur bench of Bombay high court , directed government , to take decision on not using the word Dalit by media.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Importance of the word Dalit<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a0 Dalit literally means downtrodden or broken, it reflects the struggle of the community to have rights which they have been denied for centuries.<\/p>\n<p>11.\u00a0 Dalit is an expression of self-empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>The core of humanism, freedom, liberty is strongly reinforced in the word Dalit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s 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.\u00a0 In earlier time Dalit used to be called as untouchables. 3.\u00a0 Official term used for Dalit, in British time was depressed class 4.\u00a0 Mahatma&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/whats-in-a-name\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What\u2019s in a name?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704855881},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}