Eknoordeep (Advocate), BA. LL.B (Hons), School of Law, Lovely Professional University
ABSTRACT
In Indian culture, the groups start things out, not at all like our own society that gives such a lot of significance to the individual character. The caste system, as it is practiced in India, is referred to as "Jati”. The term jati shows up in practically all Indian dialects and is identified with the possibility of heredity or family relationship bunch. There are possibly more than 3000 jatis in India, and there is no all-Indian structure of classifying them. However, in every neighbourhood positioning exists and is a lot identified with immaculateness and contamination. Every jati has a special job to do, but not everyone in the jati does it. Accordingly, some stylists don't shave, woodworkers who don't assemble, and brahmins who don't go about as ministers. A jati is recognized in a nearby jati setting by whom its individuals will acknowledge food and water from and to which jatis its individuals will give food and water. Individuals will attempt to wed their children and little girls to individuals from their equivalent jati and will give their significant dependability to their jati. A jati will for the most part be coordinated into a biradari (a fellowship), and this association does the business and manages the working of the jati, and has the ability to avoid a wrongdoer from the jati. This paper will talk about the concept of jati, the background, and how it is becoming a curse for lower caste or Dalit people. This paper will throw some light on the true meaning of jati and how it was and it is completely suppressing Dalits. How lower caste people or Dalits are being treated by antagonists. How on daily basis one or the other of the Dalit person ends his or her life out of embarrassment. The rapid increase in crimes against Dalits. This paper will also cover the constitutional framework and other judicial reforms brought for the betterment and upliftment of Dalit people.
Keywords: Dalit, Jati, India, Discrimination
