The Human Rights and Dalit Assertions in Inda: The Human Rights Perspective.

The present study is an attempt to comprehend the escalation of consciousness of Dalits in Medak district of Telangana region, Andhra Pradesh. Paper argues that the nature and changes in the Dalit movement can be figured out through the impact created by the two major incidents the region. One is in Jhadimalkapur in the year of 1996, in which Dalits were denied to sacrifice animal infront of Hindu goddess; second, in the year of 2004, the Dalits were denied the temple entry at the Allapur village of Medak district, that led to the mass conversion of Dalits into the Christianity. Around these gruesome events, the Dalit movement, that its political discourse shaped and reshaped its agenda, strategy of transformation in Telangana region. The comparative study of these two incidents, therefore, becomes extremely crucial not only in shaping the Dalit movement, but also in determining the nature of social transformation in Telangana region. This study also an attempt to understand the Dalit consciousness based on these two incidents that reveals that what are the inherent factors that made them to reject their so-called culture and religion. It, further, also explores how Dalits, especially educated youth are gradually started asserting their rights. Ironically, in a transitory phase glorifying and eulogizing the "proliferation" and "fragmentation" of identities and struggles, there seems to be radically new possibilities to forge solidarity. To comprehend the above arguments, the paper try to escalate the is socio-economic and political conditions of Telangana region in general Dalits in particular, study further try to analyze the Ambedkar's understanding of democracy: values and reality that are there in Indian democracy: formal and substantive, democratic rights vitalities and vulnerabilities. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]