Untouchability

Untouchability

                 Untouchability has been abolished under the constitution and it is practice in any from is forbidden. Amole provision has also been made to discourage it by providing for punishment under the untouchability offences  Act of  1955 A.D. unfortunately, all this is has not achieved the desired reslts and untouchability continues to exist in some from or the  in different parts of the country. Lower caste people are not allowed to touch water and other things, especially in the rural area. Mahatma Gandhi told the so called lower caste people as harijans, the children of Hari or God. The Harijans are tortured by other people.

                Untouchability has been abolished by law and its practice is a criminal offence punishable with jail. Sentence still it is practiced In the some backward village by backward people. The roots of untouchability lie deep in the human snobbery. The egoism of very man makes him think that he is superior to all other in one respect or another. When he find that other excel him in all other things he (the purans) which rightly interpreted divide mankind into four vocational divisions by occupations, not by birth. There are some sophist who say that the origins of caste and untouchability are hygienic. We also see that the habits of Brahmins are superior and batter than the sweepers. Other people say that when the Aryans came to India, they were cleaner in habits than the unhygienic avorgines and that for reasons of cleanliness a line had to be drawn at inter marriages and inter- dining between the two races. This is not true. The reason of untouchability are not hygienic but social. The untouchability came in the consideration of caste as higher rank people & lower rank people.