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Dalit Christians in India
Machová, Dita ; Hons, Pavel (advisor) ; Štipl, Zdeněk (referee)
Diploma paper deals with the history and current situation of Dalit Christian communities in India. It elaborates the phenomenon of mass movements, which represented a significant milestone in the history of Christianity in India. During these movements a substantial amount of untouchable castes converted to Christianity and the number of Christians multiplied. In the twentieth century Dalit Christians have become marginalized group by government measures which promised compensation benefits only for groups Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist Dalits. At the beginning of the twenty-first century Christian and Muslim communities in India are facing violent attacks made by militant Hindu groups. Since 1980s Dalit Christian communities have come together and fight for obtaining government benefits and against oppression made by churches.
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Dalit Christians in India
Machová, Dita ; Hons, Pavel (advisor) ; Štipl, Zdeněk (referee)
Diploma paper deals with the history and current situation of Dalit Christian communities in India. It elaborates the phenomenon of mass movements, which represented a significant milestone in the history of Christianity in India. During these movements a substantial amount of untouchable castes converted to Christianity and the number of Christians multiplied. In the twentieth century Dalit Christians have become marginalized group by government measures which promised compensation benefits only for groups Hindu, Sikh and Buddhist Dalits. At the beginning of the twenty-first century Christian and Muslim communities in India are facing violent attacks made by militant Hindu groups. Since 1980s Dalit Christian communities have come together and fight for obtaining government benefits and against oppression made by churches.
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Political Emancipation of Dalits
Kocábková, Eliška ; Štipl, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Hons, Pavel (referee)
The main aim of the thesis is to summarize and analyse developement of the political emancipation of Dalits, the lowest classes of Indian society, from the 19th century to the present days. The paper pursues important events and personalities in political equalization of this section (the antibrahmanic movements in the 19th century, the merit of Gandhi and Dr. Ambedkar, formation of the first political parties protecting rights of the Dalits, the Dalit Panther movement). The thesis further inquires other significant issues as compensatory discrimination and violence on the Dalits. A specific chapter is a case study of the political party Bahujan Samaj Party that represents interests of the Dalits in Uttar Pradesh.
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