What is it about?
The work is to share the actual experiences of real setting of a particular social group. The actual realization of feelings of Dalits has been experienced by the author through living in their houses and participating in their daily lives. Hence, the attempt is to show the hidden issues between the people at developed strata and the people at the periphery and related injustices and the kind of relationships. The relationship is more about exclusion and discrimination at socio-economic and political spheres. The
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Why is it important?
The core of the paper is the method of participant observation through learning by living which makes a difference of bringing the reality at the grass-root level. This is voice of dalits which is generally missed often behind the skin of data presented in the form of graphs and percentages of intensity about any issue.
Perspectives
The article has been contributed individually due to the experiences shared individually by the author with the help of members of the community. Hence, it was thought better to share the feelings and routine experiences of socio-economic lives of marginalized in a economically developed state of India. Thus, author tried to expose the condition through instances or narratives rather than in the form of percentages of exploitation, discrimination and exclusion. The idea was to let the readers to feel the intensity of despair and hope of the marginalized people living in the interiors of districts, town, villages and within the villages at the extreme corners of it. This is written with an idea to share it with the readers who did not find opportunity to come out from their busy lives in metros to have an interaction with such kind of marginalized group of people. The article may help in developing a mind to speak in support of the marginalized.
Arif Rasheed
Department of Social Work, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
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This page is a summary of: Development and Exclusion: Dalits in ‘Vibrant Gujarat’, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, January 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2455328x17744624.
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