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Confronting Marginalisation
Explain Kabir's poetry and his view.
Kabir’s poetry spoke about his love for the supreme being free of ritual and priests.
(i)It also expresses his sharp and pointed criticism of those he saw as powerful. Kabir attacked those who attempted to define individuals on the basis of their religious and caste identities.
(i)In his view every person had the ability to reach the highest level of spiritual salvation and deep knowledge within themselves through their own experience.
(iii)His poetry brings out the powerful idea of the equality of all human beings and their labour. He writes about valuing the work of the ordinary potter, the weaver and the woman carrying the water pot – labour that in his poetry becomes the basis of understanding the entire universe.
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The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act came into being in the year
Who cannot avail reservations?
There are specific ________ and ________ for the marginalised in our country.
Rathnam filed a case in the local police station under the ________________.
Manual scavengers are exposed to ____________ conditions of work and face serious hazards.
The job of manual scavenging is mainly done by __________ women and young girls.
The government provides for free or __________ hostels for students of Dalit and Adivasi communities.
Rathnam with the support of other Dalit families resisted the powerful castes.
Manual scavengers in different parts of the country, the Bhangis in Gujarat, Pakhis in Andhra Pradesh and the Sikhaliars in Tamil Nadu, continue to be considered untouchable.
The reservation policy of the government is meant only for the Dalits.
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