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Volume : I, Issue : XII, January - 2012

Dalit's Social Transformation: Redefining the Social Justice

Laxman Kawale

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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Dalits, as the ex-untouchables prefer to be called, are a very distinct social group. While belonging to a broad class of have-nots they suffer an additional disability of social oppression. Economically, most of them are still the poorest of poor. There is a need for the dalits movement to emerge as a movement for genuine emancipation and social transformation of weaker sections of the society. Social justice is a fundamental principle of democratic principles engaged in a politics of social transformation, to bring about a fundamental defeat of the brahminical social order. It is a change in the present economist definition of such transformation and strives for its redefinition in social terms.

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Laxman Kawale, (2012). Dalit's Social Transformation: Redefining the Social Justice. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. I, Issue. XII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/670.pdf

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