1. Discrimination of Dalit Women in India
They experience violence, discrimination, and social exclusion on a daily basis. ... According to Ruth Manorama,7 certain kinds of violence are traditionally reserved for Dalit women: extreme filthy verbal abuse and sexual epithets, naked parading, dismemberment, being forced to drink urine and eat faeces, branding, pulling out of teeth, tongue and nails, and violence including murder after proclaiming witchcraft, are only experienced by Dalit women. Dalit women are threatened by rape as part of collective violence by the higher castes. ... The Devadasi system of temple prostitution is the mos...
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