Social Exclusion –Its types and impact on Dalits in India

Abstract

historically and politically but the results will be the same in the form of lack of people development and the country. As a result of social exclusion, its impacts on the livelihood of the people such as increase in rate of poverty, health, and others. The exclusion is practiced world wide mostly on the identity of gender, caste, religion, ethnicity, color, race, nationality, and others. Social exclusion is a process which involves denial of rights and opportunities which the majority enjoy, resulting in the inability of individuals from excluded groups to participate in the basic political, economic and social functioning of the society, there by causing high human poverty and deprivation among them (S.Thorat.et) Social Exclusion is lack of access to resources and consequent inability to utilize them. It is further accentuated by denial of opportunities which enhance access to resources and their utilization. It can be experienced by anyone who is in position which is vulnerable to such impeding conditions .Amartya Sen(2000) has pointed out that the historical roots of the concept of social exclusion goes back as far as Aristotle. But the contemporary term emerged as a result of social unrest due to increasing unemployment and economical inequalities in France during 1960s and it was adopted particularly by the U.K new labor government elected in the late 1990s when the ILO also took a lead in driving the concept to less economically developed countries(Jane Mathieson.et) there is a lack of theoretical and empirical studies on the concept of social exclusion based on caste , religion ethnicity the types of exclusion and the indicators of the exclusion and its impact on the excluded groups. The paper wants to discuss about the Dalits of India in the below mentioned frame work of social exclusion.