Dr.J.Rathan Prabhakar
M.com, M.Phil, Ph.D
Founder President,
Center for Christian Rights and Social Responsibility

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[color=red]The Indian Population is nearly I Billion of which the Scheduled Castes and Tribes are more than 25% of the population.. Before the Independence they were not allowed to enter Hindu Temples and they are treated as Untouchables. During the British Period these people were attracted to Christianity, which treated all equally.  They are converted and accepted Lord Jesus as their God.

After Independence the Indian Government had appointed a constitutional body lead by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar him self a dalith. Any act against the Fundamental Rights is considered to be against the Article 13 of our constitution. The Article 25(1) of Indian Constitution provides freedom of Religion and says that any citizens can follow their own Religion. As per the Article 23 (2) of the Constitution, the government should not discriminate the citizens on the grounds of Religion, caste, creed and group. The third Para of the article 341of the Indian constitution clearly demonstrates that the Daliths (untouchables) who follow Hindu Religion are classified as Scheduled Castes and are entitled to avail the benefits of the reservations, but the Daliths (untouchables) who follow other religions like Islam, Christianity Buddhist and Sikh were not allowed to avail the reservation benefits. Again the third Para of the said article 341 was amended in 1956 and 1990 and accordingly both Sikh and the Buddhist Daliths were also treated as Schedule castes. The constitution provides the freedom of Religion on one side and on the other side it is discriminating the Daliths on the basis of religion, which is against to the secular doctrine of the constitution. With this discrimination, those daliths who follow Christian and Islam religions are losing their constitutional rights. 
Further the Government of India stated that the Scheduled Castes have right to enjoy reservations except those SCs those who are converted from Hindu, Buddha, and Sikh religions to Christianity they are not eligible to enjoy reservations provided and they are not be treated as SCs. As far as caste is concerned the daliths belong to all religions are same,
If they accept Christianity they will not be treated as SCs and bound to lose all benefits of reservations in the field of education and employment.
It is very interesting to know that an informal survey reveals that in India more than 100 million of people who belong to SC are worshiping Lord Jesus. But the official statistics says that only 30 Million people are Christians. As a matter of fact the majority section of people that attend the church are SCs.Take for an example Mr.”X” and Mr.”Y” are by caste they are scheduled castes or daliths and both Mr.”X” and Mr”Y” are teammates in church choir. To enjoy reservations in Education and Employment Mr.”X” family is unwillingly, forced to write their religion as Hindu behind their caste. So, they are eligible to enjoy the reservations if they put their religion as Hindu or Sikh or Buddhist. As far as caste concerned both Mr.”X and Mr.”Y” is the same, but according to the religion both are different (As per the records). Mr.”Y”can keep Bible in his home, he can attend Church openly, but Mr.”X” cannot able to do so. Most of the Scheduled castes are facing this problem. To avail the benefits of the reservations, they attend churches secretly, they worship god with all their heart and soul, they are accepting Lord Jesus as their savior but they are living as hidden Christians. More than 75% of SCs are facing this problem. In this connection we want to make a request to the people and the national leaders to abide by the article 25 (1) of Indian constitution that provides freedom of religion and Article 23 (2) of the constitution that says that the Government should not discriminate the citizens on the grounds of religion, caste creed, and group.
The above situation has been prevailing in the Indian Society due to the above said reasons. 
The Center for Christian Rights and social responsibility is the first and only one organization working for the attainment of freedom of religion to the scheduled castes in a peaceful manner, and aimed to make awareness among the Indian people as well as the rulers on the discrimination against religion being shown by the government towards Scheduled Caste or Dalith People who deprived of liberty of religion. 
Since this issue belongs to a social inequality and religious disparity we request to recognize this issue as a violation of human rights.

My dear Dr. J. Rathan prabhakar,

I fully agree with your sentiments. Dalits or untouchables, when change their religious beliefs do not, all of a sudden, tranfer themselves into established, accepted Hindu varnas. It is simply impossible.

When they could not get any kind of justice, when their proper and properly presented grievances did not get addressed and/or were not noticed or registered in the legal systems of those olde days when even for asking justice against the law abiding society was a crime, if not all, but many accepted the umbrella provided by the missionaries who not oly heard the same grievances patiently and prepared these untouchables to accept Hindu religious code of varna system and their best efforts to alliviate untouchabes concerns into concrete actions which might have given the unhappy untouchables to stay in the Hindu fold.

Alas, that was not to be as the history proves the fact that by simple conversion of faith, former untouchables became ordinary members of Christian groups within the overall Indian community. This simple acceptance of Crhistianity by removing themselves as free laborers, more like society’s unpaid coolies for the jobs nobody wanted to perform.

Christian missionaries, as a group, also found it next to impossible to make these tired untouchables into happy Chrisians, as fomer slave mentality came in a way. Education, respect, confidance in the long process of being considered as equal to the previously converted untouchable Chrisiasns and/or foreign Christians took very long time. The path was strewn with difficulties unknown to the former untouchables as new faith did not have magical powers that could make illiterate and unskilled in anything but their own family trades good law abiding citizens.

History of a long and arduous march on the part of the former untouchabls and patience and perseverity on the parts of the foreign missionaries is replete with heroic efforts made by both sides. There is no such thing as elimination of backwardness of the entire neglected society by a new and improved law, as in case of the Indian constitutional lawforbidding all Hindus from discrimination against these very untouchables.

laws remain on the books and seldom implimented i he real situaitions. Higher class officers under whose responsibilities and government mandate and dictates Utouchables saw very real improvement in their sad lives. Therefore, Christians, Muslims, Buddhist, Sikhs, the religions which acceppted former Hindu untouchables cannot and must not fight with the law that considered non Hindu untouchables not falling into a very strict and very rigid definition of backwardness.

There is just one thing other untouchables could do and better do soon is use their political powers, their representation in the parliament and make the pwers that be heard. Untouchability is gone but the centuries old backwardness is lng way to be a history.

Fight with whatever means ne can gather and try. There is nothing to lose if they do not win.

Sid Harth

Hi,Any further updates on this thread? Hope to see more replies one of these days,especially feedbacks from the thread starter. Seems like this thread has been inactive for such a long time. Think topic should be closed.

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My dear Dr. J. Rathan prabhakar,

I agree with your post. It is true that the people of other religion is not in good condition in INDIA. Gujarat incident is a perfect example in this case. Shibsena is a great thread for them. Sometimes government authorizes their activity. I think government should take strong steps so that every people can maintain their religious activity properly.