Dalits the scavengers

Dalits, the scavengers: 

Untouchables or Dalits or Scheduled Castes are actually manual scavengers of human excreta i.e. paki in Sanskrit and are called arzal in Arabic. 

Dalits are a group of races who are the blackest of all Dravidians and therefore forced (by Brahmins) to manually scavenge human faeces in open outdoor latrines. 

Paki means human faeces. Paki is therefore also an ethnic slur for the scavenger ethnicities of India.

Dalits did manual cleaning and manual handling of paki. Indians had few native tools for cleaning. Dalits are also -after urbanization- modern day urban gutter cleaners.

Dalits are paki (faeces) scavengers, prostitutes, slaves,  servants, ayahs, peons, bastards, untouchables and outcastes.

UNTOUCHABILITY: SCs are the  pakis who handled human faeces with their bare hands and put them in a basket on their head and took them to a deserted place and threw away the faecal matter there.

Untouchability in the West: Cagots of France were not an ethnic or religious group. but all dalit groups are ethnic groups.

Mother Theresa is called "Saint of the gutters" because she took care of dalits and mahadalits.

Dalits ingested saliva of others by eating left overs.

Dalits eat dead animals.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_soil

 

Night soil is a historically used euphemism for human excreta collected from cesspools, privies, pail closets, pit latrines, privy middens, septic tanks, etc. This material was removed from the immediate area, usually at night, by workers employed in this trade.

2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_scavenging

Manual scavenging is a term used mainly in India for the manual removal of untreated human excreta from bucket toilets or pit latrines by hand with buckets and shovels. It has been officially prohibited by law in 1993 due to it being regarded as a caste-based, dehumanizing practice (if not done in a safe manner). It involves moving the excreta, using brooms and tin plates, into baskets, which the workers carry to disposal locations sometimes several kilometers away.[1] The workers, called scavengers (or more appropriately "sanitation workers"), rarely have any personal protective equipment. Manual scavenging is a caste-based occupation, with the vast majority of workers involved being women.[2]
The employment of manual scavengers to empty a certain type of dry toilet that requires manual daily emptying was prohibited in India in 1993. The law was extended and clarified to include insanitary latrines, ditches and pits in 2013.

3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untouchability

Untouchability, in its literal sense, is the  practice of ostracising a minority group by segregating them from the mainstream by social custom or legal mandate.
The term is most commonly associated with treatment of the Dalit communities in the Indian subcontinent who were considered "polluting."
Traditionally, the groups characterized as untouchable were those whose occupations and habits of life involved ritually polluting activities, such as manual scavengers, sweepers, fishermen and washermen.

4. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit

Dalit, meaning "broken/scattered" in Sanskrit and Hindi, is a term mostly used for the ethnic groups in India that have been kept depressed (often termed backward castes). Dalits were excluded from the four-fold varna system of Hinduism and were seen as forming a fifth varna, also known by the name of Panchama.

5. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit_theology

Dalit theology is a branch of Christian theology that emerged among the Dalit caste in India in the 1980s. It shares a number of themes with liberation theology, which arose two decades earlier, including a self-identity as a people undergoing Exodus.[1] Dalit theology sees hope in the "Nazareth Manifesto" of Luke 4,[2] where Jesus speaks of preaching "good news to the poor ... freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind" and of releasing "the oppressed."

6. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit_Christian;

In the late 1880s, the Marathi word 'Dalit' was used by Mahatma Jotiba Phule for the outcasts and Untouchables who were oppressed and broken by Hindu society.[1] The term Dalit Christian (sometimes Christian Dalit) is used to describe those low-caste who have converted to Christianity from Hinduism or Islam and are still categorized as Dalits in Hindu, Christian and Islamic societies in India, Pakistan and other countries. Hindu Dalits are referred to as "Harijans". Over 70% of Indian Christians are Dalits

7. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit_Muslim

Dalit Muslim refers to Hindu Untouchables, also called Dalits, who have converted to Islam.

8. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduled_Castes_and_Scheduled_Tribes

The Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are officially designated groups of historically disadvantaged people in India.

9. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mala_(caste)

Mala are Dalits from the south Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka. Mala groups are considered as Scheduled Castes by the Government of India.

A small section of the Malas also turned to Christianity but after noticing the similar caste politics in the Telugu Catholic church, shifted to Protestantism instead. They are prominent in the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church (AELC), the Black Church of South India (CSI).

10. http://simoncharsley.co.uk/

The Madigas are one of the major families of dalit castes widely spread across South India, in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and northern Tamil Nadu particularly. Like the Chamars of the North, their traditional specialisation in leather work was the foundation for their expansion over the centuries. It was also the source of their distinctive Untouchability, rarely questioned before it was outlawed in the mid 20th century.

11. https://navsarjantrust.org/

Our mission is to eliminate discrimination based on untouchability practices.

12. https://navsarjantrust.org/who-are-dalits/

Traditionally, there are four principal castes (divided into many sub-categories) and one category of people who fall outside the caste system—the Dalits. As members of the lowest rank of Indian society, Dalits face discrimination at almost every level: from access to education and medical facilities to restrictions on where they can live and what jobs they can have.

13. https://navsarjantrust.org/what-is-untouchability/

The jobs considered polluting and impure are reserved for Dalits, and in many cases Dalits are prevented from engaging in any other work. These jobs include removing human waste (known as “manual scavenging”), dragging away and skinning animal carcasses, tanning leather, making and fixing shoes, and washing clothes. They are supposed to reside outside the village so that their physical presence does not pollute the “real” village. Not only are they restricted in terms of space, but their houses are also supposed to be inferior in quality and devoid of any facilities like water and electricity.  The village level Dalits are barred from using wells used by non-Dalits, forbidden from going to the barber shop and entering temples, while at the level of job recruitment and employment Dalits are systematically paid less, ordered to do the most menial work, and rarely promoted. Even at school, Dalit children may be asked to clean toilets and to eat separately.

Kachro (filth), Melo (dirty), Dhudiyo (dusty), Gandy (mad), Ghelo (stupid), Punjo (waste) are just some of the names given to Dalit boys in Gujarat. Of course, names with similar meanings are given to Dalit girls too. 

14. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karamchedu_massacre;

Karamchedu massacre refers to an incident that occurred in Karamchedu, Andhra Pradesh on 17 July 1985,[1] where a conflict between Dalits and Kamma landlords predominantly resulted in the killing of six Dalits and grievous injuries to 20 more.[2] After a long legal battle that went up to the Supreme Court, one person was given life imprisonment and 30 more were sentenced to a prison term of three years.[2][3] The initial main accused, Daggubati Chenchu Ramaiah, father of then-MLA of Parchur, Daggubati Venkateswara Rao was brutally assassinated by Naxalites in 1989 as Retaliation.

15. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsundur_massacre

The Tsundur massacre refers to the killing of several Dalit (referred as Malas, who were once the warriors in the kingdoms) people in the village of Tsundur, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India, on 06.04.1991.[1] 13 Dalits were massacred by upper-caste(Reddy's and some velamas support) men in the fields. When a young graduate dalit youth was beaten because his feet unintentionally touched a Reddy woman in the cinema hall, the dalits of the village supported him.

16. https://thewire.in/caste/will-victims-caste-violence-andhras-peda-gottipadu-village-get-justice

At the stroke of midnight on new year, two youth belonging to the Dalit Mala caste in Peda Gottipadu village in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh were roaming around their village on motorbikes, wishing random people a happy new year.
When the youth were about to leave after offering their apologies, a group of people from the Kamma caste  who were watching the entire incident from their homes suddenly came to the spot and began hurling abuses at the stunned youth. “It appears we are not able to control these Malas anymore! These days every Mala household has a bike and they are roaming everywhere without any check,” a Kamma woman shouted at the top of her voice. Without any warning, all of them began hurling stones and sticks on their bikes. Hearing the commotion, over 20 more Kammas arrived and joined in the assault of the hapless youth. Abandoning their bikes, the youth ran for their lives.

17. https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/more-2-months-reddys-telangana-village-boycott-dalits-97319

It's a constant worry for 40-year-old Lachala whether she can find work for the day. Lachala walks several kilometers to neighbouring villagers in desperation to seek work. This, after Lachala and others from Mala families (categorised as Scheduled Castes) of Marampally village in Nizamabad district have been socially boycotted for defying the diktats of the upper-caste Reddys.
Though the upper-castes have hit where it hurts by depriving them economically, women like Lachala continue to fight against the caste discrimination everyday by doing a dheeksha (protest) at night at anti-caste revolutionary Dr BR Ambedkar's statue in the village.