Caste matters : Family alleges harassment by teachers after Dalit boy found dead in Rajasthan school
Caste matters : Family alleges harassment by teachers after Dalit boy found dead in Rajasthan school
A 15-year-old student was found dead in his classroom at Pragpura in Kotputli-Behror district of Rajasthan. Police have registered a case of murder after the Dalit student’s family alleged that two of his schoolteachers were harassing him with casteist slurs.
Family of the boy in Rajasthan says he was harassed by two of his teachers who used casteist slurs against him and that the school principal did not take action even after complaints
In India, caste is a hereditary classification that every Indian is born into. The system too supports it as legally religion can be changed, but not caste. In the hierarchical caste system, Dalits are considered as belonging to the lowest caste and Brahmins are considered as the highest caste.
Dalits are severely oppressed and treated as inhumanely as possible by the oppressor upper castes. They are subject to a lifetime of ,marginalisation, exclusion and human rights violations. To this day, they are subject to systematic and systemised discrimination, marginalisation, stigma and violence in all its forms.
Caste based crimes like this abound in India and caste-based discrimination is rife even among Indians outside India. A couple of months back in another state Madhya Pradesh, an Adivasi man was urinated on by a Brahmin member of the ruling political party, the BJP.
Laws preventing caste discrimnation, like the one recently passed in Seattle, are essential to ensuing basic human dignity to all, Pro-Hindu groups oppose these anti-discrimination efforts.
https://time.com/6146141/caste-discrimination-us-opposition-grows/
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A week back in Tamil Nadu, India, a Dalit student was attacked by his fellow students for studying well - https://www.newsclick.in/tn-dalit-student-attacked-studying-well-anti-caste-groups-ring-alarm. A group of high school students broke into his home and hacked him with a sickle.
Harrasing the victim's family who are already dealing with a loss is also not new in India. Most times, if the victim's family files a police case/ lodges an FIR to report the crime, the offendor's family slaps a fake case on them and then the police join in in coercing the victim's family to withdraw their case.
We send missions to Mars & the Moon, but are yet to send a mission to reclaim our humanity.