Publisher's Synopsis
The set in two volumes track down Dalit history, their marginalisation, welfare measures and awakening of Dalits. In addition, the work also suggests ways and means to bring Dalit into mainstream society. The work highlights various problems associated with the Dalits as racism, injustice, torture, discrimination, International Human Rights, social disabilities of Dalits, rights of Dalits, development of Dalit women etc. This is a comprehensive coverage on various issues of Dalits and backward liberation, the role of state and social agencies in the mainstreaming of the people is also discussed in these volumes. The work will be highly useful for social work organizations, policy planners, researchers in the field and students. Vol. 1 : Dalit, Racism, and Social Articulation includes chapters like Dalits: history, colour, caste and culture, Ethnicity, Racial Conflict, Racism and Justice, Dalit Migration and Racial Exclusion, Torture, Discrimination and the Law, Mainstreaming Dalits. Vol. 2 : Issues of Dalits and Backward Liberation, includes Discrimination on the Ground of caste and Tribe, Dalits in Contemporary India, Social Disabilities of Dalits, Rights of Dalits, Educational Development of Dalits, Development of Dalit Women, Dalit Welfare Programmes. About The Author:- Prof. Ramesh Chandra was born in a family of academicians and freedom fighters on July 1st. 1957 in village Bijwara, District Meerut of Uttar Pradesh. He started his research career at University of Delhi and then went to the New York Hospital-Cornell University Medical Center, as well as at the School of Medicine, State University of New York at Stony Brook as a faculty member and then went to Harvard University Medical School-Massachusetts General Hospital jointly at MIT, Cambridge, USA. On his return to India he joined the faculty at the University of Delhi, where he is currently a Professor of Chemistry and Director of Dr. BR Ambedkar Centre for Biomedical Research: in addition to his present.
