Abstract

We get a lot of valuable information regarding untouchability from the works of Dr B.R. Ambedkar, M.K. Gandhi, G.S. Ghurye, A. Ayyappan, B Kuppuswamy, J.H. Hutton, H.N. Brailsford, D.R. Desai and others. `Basically, the people considered within the scheduled castes category are untouchables in India. For the rst time, the Government of India prepared a list of people under the head 'Scheduled Castes, amounting to a population of 5.35 crores. Now their number has increased tremendously in all the states of India. In this paper, the researcher has tried to prove that, even today untouchability occurs among the Madiga community in a few villages in the Haveri district.

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