{"id":50489,"date":"2021-09-12T19:49:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/12\/in-an-interactive-discussion-discuss-among-yourselves-who-are-the-untouchables-of-today\/"},"modified":"2021-09-12T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T19:49:07","slug":"in-an-interactive-discussion-discuss-among-yourselves-who-are-the-untouchables-of-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/12\/in-an-interactive-discussion-discuss-among-yourselves-who-are-the-untouchables-of-today\/","title":{"rendered":"In an interactive discussion, discuss among yourselves: Who are the \u201cUntouchables\u201d of today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GANDHI AND THE DALITS <br \/>Websites <br \/>https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/untouchable <br \/>https:\/\/www.nationalheraldindia.com\/opinion\/gandhi-denounced-caste-and-untouchability <br \/>https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/oct\/20\/gandhi-and-the-rights-of-indias-lower-castes <br \/>https:\/\/www.mkgandhi.org\/biography\/campaign.htm <br \/>To Read: <br \/>Horace G. Alexander, \u201cMr Gandhi and the Untouchables\u201d The Contemporary Review (Lon- <br \/>don) Volume 147 (January 1, 1935). <br \/>Assignment: <br \/>Gandhi fought against the discriminatory nature of India\u2019s traditional caster (varna) system <br \/>but was unable eliminate it. In fact, the \u201cScheduled Castes\u201d became enshrined in the consti- <br \/>tution of the new nation. In an interactive discussion, discuss among yourselves: Who are the <br \/>\u201cUntouchables\u201d of today? Who speaks for them? What would it take to eradicate \u201cuntoucha\u2010 <br \/>bility\u201d altogether\u2014and not just in India? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GANDHI AND THE DALITS Websites https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/untouchable https:\/\/www.nationalheraldindia.com\/opinion\/gandhi-denounced-caste-and-untouchability https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/oct\/20\/gandhi-and-the-rights-of-indias-lower-castes https:\/\/www.mkgandhi.org\/biography\/campaign.htm To Read: Horace G. Alexander, \u201cMr Gandhi and the Untouchables\u201d The Contemporary Review (Lon- don) Volume 147 (January 1, 1935). Assignment: Gandhi fought against the discriminatory nature of India\u2019s traditional caster (varna) system but was unable eliminate it. In fact, the \u201cScheduled Castes\u201d became enshrined in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-50489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-paper-writing","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/papersspot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}