Meghwal caste

An unusual place Many testimonies and individual claims have been made that neither the school nor the Rajput teacher holds any bias against the Meghwals, a community considered “untouchable” in Rajasthan. Some reports state that Inder had been suffering from a ear infection and probably died of septicemia, or sepsis (the clinical name for blood poisoning by bacteria), rather than brain hemorrhage caused by the teacher’s slap. Doctors have considered the possibility that the infection could have been aggravated by the assault. Reports also say there is no upper caste pot in the premises of the school; all the students and teachers, some of whom are from ‘lower castes’, drink water from one source — a cement tank. This is the most unlikely source of drinking water in the hot summer of Rajasthan. Generally, people drink from a clay pot ( matki). Nevertheless, Inder’s village (and school) must be an unusual place in Rajasthan as it doesn’t have caste practices. I went to a school similar to the one Inder attended. It was a poorly maintained building. There were no benches or chairs; students sat on the floor. Everyday life at home, in school and in the village was governed by caste norms. Untouchability was, and still is, practised in the villages of Rajasthan. People from upper castes think of it as normal and desirable because they believe it is the right way to practise the Hindu religion. People of lower castes such as the Meghwals consider it a part and parcel of their l...

अनुक्रम • 1 मूल • 1.1 पौराणिक संकेत • 1.2 ऐतिहासिक चिह्न • 2 भौगोलिक वितरण • 3 जाति का दर्जा • 4 जीवन शैली • 5 धर्म • 6 कला • 7 प्रमुख लोग • 8 सन्दर्भ • 9 इन्हें भी देखें • 10 बाहरी कड़ियाँ मूल [ ] अलेक्ज़ेंडर कनिंघम ने अपनी 1871 में छपी पुस्तक ‘सर्वे ऑफ इंडिया’ में प्रतिपादित किया कि पौराणिक संकेत [ ] भारतीय पौराणिक कथाओं में राजऋषि वृत्र धार्मिक प्रमुख था और वह सप्त सिंधु क्षेत्र का राजा भी था। समस्त भारत पर शासन करने वाले नागवंशियों का वह पूर्वज था। नागवंशी अपने व्यवहार, शैली, योग्यता और उनकी गुणवत्ता में ईश्वरीय गुणों के लिए जाने जाते थे। ऐतिहासिक चिह्न [ ] भौगोलिक वितरण [ ] ‘मेघवाल’ मारवाड़, राजस्थान से हैं। 1981 की जनगणना के अनुसार राजस्थान में मेघ, मेघवाल, मेंघवार के रूप में अधिसूचित लोगों की संयुक्त जनसंख्या 889,300 थी। [ जाति का दर्जा [ ] कई कश्मीरी भारद्वाज् अत्री जीवन शैली [ ] मेघवंशियों का पेशा मेघवंशियों में से कुछ राजस्थान के गाँवों से उनके प्रधान भोजन में [ पारंपरिक मेघवाल समाज में महिलाओं का दर्जा कमतर है। परिवारों के बीच बातचीत के माध्यम से यौवन से पहले ही विवाह तय कर दिए जाते हैं। शादी के बाद पत्नी पति के घर में आ जाती है। प्रसव के समय वह मायके में जाती है। पिता द्वारा बच्चों का उत्तर दायित्व लेने और पत्नी को मुआवजा देने के बाद तलाक की अनुमति देने की परंपरा है। किसी बात के लिए नापसन्द व्यक्ति का हुक्का-पानी बंद करने की एक सामाजिक बुराई मेघों में है। इसे तुच्छ मामलों में भी इस्तेमाल किया जाता है। इससे मेघ महिलाओं के लिए सामाजिक कठिनाइयाँ बढ़ी हैं। धर्म [ ] मेघवालों के प्रारम्भिक इतिहास या उनके धर्म के बारे में बहुत कम जानकारी उपलब्ध है। संकेत मिलते हैं कि ...

Kota, Rajasthan: Twelve Congress councillors in the Rajasthan's Baran Municipal Council on Tuesday sent their resignation letters to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, expressing anguish over atrocities against the Dalits and backing party MLA Pana Chand Meghwal. The Baran-Atru MLA on Monday had sent his resignation letter to Gehlot, two days after the death of a nine-year-old Dalit boy who was allegedly beaten up by his schoolteacher for touching a drinking water pot in Jalore. Meanwhile, political leaders made a beeline for the boy's home in Jalore's Surana village. Congress leader and former state deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot on Tuesday reached the boy's home and said a strong message needs to be given to win the Dalit community's trust. State Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra visited the boy's home with Women and Child Welfare Minister Mamta Bhupesh, PWD Minister Bhajan Lal Jatav and Disaster Management and Relief Minister Govind Ram Meghwal. He announced financial assistance of Rs 20 lakh to the family from the party fund and promise a speedy trial. Backing MLA Meghwal's move, 12 of the 25 Congress councillors in the Baran civic body expressed anguish over atrocities against the Dalits and deprived sections. Ward No.29 councillor Yogendra Mehta said they sent their resignation letters in support of the MLA and against the government's failure to protect the Dalits. The other councillors who sent their resignation letters are Rohitashva Saxena, Rajaram Meena, Rekha M...

Premium The death of a Dalit boy after a thrashing from his upper caste school principal has once again brought to the fore the old normal of deep-seated discrimination in Rajasthan. The victim’s family finds itself isolated as fellow villagers in Surana refuse to acknowledge a caste angle to the incident, reports Ishita Mishra August 26, 2022 01:37 am | Updated 10:01 am IST Two days before India celebrated its 76th Independence Day, The boy, Inder Meghwal, according to initial reports, was punished by Chail Singh, a Rajput, for quenching his thirst from a water pot reserved for the upper caste teacher. The incident triggered a massive outrage, leading to the immediate arrest of the accused schoolteacher and drawing the national gaze upon Saraswati Vidya Mandir, a private school in Jalore’s Surana village, and the contentious earthen pot. Though the pitcher is nowhere to be found on the school premises, it has stirred the caste pot in Rajasthan. Surana, a small village in Sayala tehsil, boasts visible signs of development — government and private schools, hospitals, electricity and metalled roads. The village, which has a sizeable population of Rajputs and Dalits, has managed to do away with ill practices such as child marriage and open defecation but caste discrimination is a different story. While members of the upper castes here claim Chail Singh’s school never had a separate water pot for the principal, the Dalits too rule out any link between Inder’s death and caste b...

NEW DELHI: On August 25, residents of Kasili Kailashpur village in Dobhi block of Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, gathered to protest at the village’s government primary school. Their target was one of the nine teachers at the school – Sabhajit Dixit. Belonging to an upper caste, Dixit routinely used casteist slurs against the children in Classes 1 to 5, alleged parents. The school has 321 students enrolled. “A teacher named Sabhajit used to mock our children, abuse our children referring to them as “chamar” and “sewage insects”, said Malti Devi, who has children in Classes 3 and 5. “Our children informed us. We (villagers) held a protest in the school premises demanding action against him. Later, police came to the school and registered a case against him.” In a viral video of the project, a student alleges that the teacher tells them, “neither you nor your community will ever improve”. On August 26, the local administration suspended him. “We initiated a probe and found the teacher guilty of abusing and misbehaving with students,” said Rajesh Kumar Singh, block education officer (BEO) Dobhi. At least six cases of caste-based Also Read | Academics and activists said that such incidents are happening as upper caste teachers are bringing the same casteism to school premises that they practice in daily lives. “Because of growing trend of pride in their castes by upper caste people coupled with failure of legal mechanism to check caste-based crimes, we are witnessing caste-based disc...

• • • • Yet to establish caste angle: Rajasthan child rights panel member on Jalore Dalit boy's death Yet to establish caste angle: Rajasthan child rights panel member on Jalore Dalit boy’s death It has been widely reported that Indra Kumar Meghwal, a Class III student of Saraswati Vidhya Mandir in Surana village, was allegedly beaten up by his teacher Chail Singh on July 20 for touching a drinking water pot and he succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Gujarat's Ahmedabad on August 14. The Rajasthan State Commission for Protection of Child Rights is yet to ascertain whether the death of the nine-year-old Dalit boy in Jalore district was a result of caste-based discrimination, its member said on Saturday. The report of its findings will be submitted to the state government on Monday. It has been widely reported that Indra Kumar Meghwal, a Class III student of Saraswati Vidhya Mandir in Surana village, was allegedly beaten up by his teacher Chail Singh on July 20 for touching a drinking water pot and he succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Gujarat’s Must Read | Shiv Bhagwan Naga, an RSCPCR member, who visited Surana village in Jalore on August 17, said according to fellow students, teacher Singh had slapped Meghwal and another student for “fighting over a drawing book”, as a result of which he suffered injuries in his ear and eye. “I visited the boy’s school and home. I spoke to many of the students, teachers and local people apart from the family. While most of t...

Kota, Rajasthan: Twelve Congress councillors in the Rajasthan's Baran Municipal Council on Tuesday sent their resignation letters to Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, expressing anguish over atrocities against the Dalits and backing party MLA Pana Chand Meghwal. The Baran-Atru MLA on Monday had sent his resignation letter to Gehlot, two days after the death of a nine-year-old Dalit boy who was allegedly beaten up by his schoolteacher for touching a drinking water pot in Jalore. Meanwhile, political leaders made a beeline for the boy's home in Jalore's Surana village. Congress leader and former state deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot on Tuesday reached the boy's home and said a strong message needs to be given to win the Dalit community's trust. State Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra visited the boy's home with Women and Child Welfare Minister Mamta Bhupesh, PWD Minister Bhajan Lal Jatav and Disaster Management and Relief Minister Govind Ram Meghwal. He announced financial assistance of Rs 20 lakh to the family from the party fund and promise a speedy trial. Backing MLA Meghwal's move, 12 of the 25 Congress councillors in the Baran civic body expressed anguish over atrocities against the Dalits and deprived sections. Ward No.29 councillor Yogendra Mehta said they sent their resignation letters in support of the MLA and against the government's failure to protect the Dalits. The other councillors who sent their resignation letters are Rohitashva Saxena, Rajaram Meena, Rekha M...

NEW DELHI: On August 25, residents of Kasili Kailashpur village in Dobhi block of Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, gathered to protest at the village’s government primary school. Their target was one of the nine teachers at the school – Sabhajit Dixit. Belonging to an upper caste, Dixit routinely used casteist slurs against the children in Classes 1 to 5, alleged parents. The school has 321 students enrolled. “A teacher named Sabhajit used to mock our children, abuse our children referring to them as “chamar” and “sewage insects”, said Malti Devi, who has children in Classes 3 and 5. “Our children informed us. We (villagers) held a protest in the school premises demanding action against him. Later, police came to the school and registered a case against him.” In a viral video of the project, a student alleges that the teacher tells them, “neither you nor your community will ever improve”. On August 26, the local administration suspended him. “We initiated a probe and found the teacher guilty of abusing and misbehaving with students,” said Rajesh Kumar Singh, block education officer (BEO) Dobhi. At least six cases of caste-based Also Read | Academics and activists said that such incidents are happening as upper caste teachers are bringing the same casteism to school premises that they practice in daily lives. “Because of growing trend of pride in their castes by upper caste people coupled with failure of legal mechanism to check caste-based crimes, we are witnessing caste-based disc...

Premium The death of a Dalit boy after a thrashing from his upper caste school principal has once again brought to the fore the old normal of deep-seated discrimination in Rajasthan. The victim’s family finds itself isolated as fellow villagers in Surana refuse to acknowledge a caste angle to the incident, reports Ishita Mishra August 26, 2022 01:37 am | Updated 10:01 am IST Two days before India celebrated its 76th Independence Day, The boy, Inder Meghwal, according to initial reports, was punished by Chail Singh, a Rajput, for quenching his thirst from a water pot reserved for the upper caste teacher. The incident triggered a massive outrage, leading to the immediate arrest of the accused schoolteacher and drawing the national gaze upon Saraswati Vidya Mandir, a private school in Jalore’s Surana village, and the contentious earthen pot. Though the pitcher is nowhere to be found on the school premises, it has stirred the caste pot in Rajasthan. Surana, a small village in Sayala tehsil, boasts visible signs of development — government and private schools, hospitals, electricity and metalled roads. The village, which has a sizeable population of Rajputs and Dalits, has managed to do away with ill practices such as child marriage and open defecation but caste discrimination is a different story. While members of the upper castes here claim Chail Singh’s school never had a separate water pot for the principal, the Dalits too rule out any link between Inder’s death and caste b...

अनुक्रम • 1 मूल • 1.1 पौराणिक संकेत • 1.2 ऐतिहासिक चिह्न • 2 भौगोलिक वितरण • 3 जाति का दर्जा • 4 जीवन शैली • 5 धर्म • 6 कला • 7 प्रमुख लोग • 8 सन्दर्भ • 9 इन्हें भी देखें • 10 बाहरी कड़ियाँ मूल [ ] अलेक्ज़ेंडर कनिंघम ने अपनी 1871 में छपी पुस्तक ‘सर्वे ऑफ इंडिया’ में प्रतिपादित किया कि पौराणिक संकेत [ ] भारतीय पौराणिक कथाओं में राजऋषि वृत्र धार्मिक प्रमुख था और वह सप्त सिंधु क्षेत्र का राजा भी था। समस्त भारत पर शासन करने वाले नागवंशियों का वह पूर्वज था। नागवंशी अपने व्यवहार, शैली, योग्यता और उनकी गुणवत्ता में ईश्वरीय गुणों के लिए जाने जाते थे। ऐतिहासिक चिह्न [ ] भौगोलिक वितरण [ ] ‘मेघवाल’ मारवाड़, राजस्थान से हैं। 1981 की जनगणना के अनुसार राजस्थान में मेघ, मेघवाल, मेंघवार के रूप में अधिसूचित लोगों की संयुक्त जनसंख्या 889,300 थी। [ जाति का दर्जा [ ] कई कश्मीरी भारद्वाज् अत्री जीवन शैली [ ] मेघवंशियों का पेशा मेघवंशियों में से कुछ राजस्थान के गाँवों से उनके प्रधान भोजन में [ पारंपरिक मेघवाल समाज में महिलाओं का दर्जा कमतर है। परिवारों के बीच बातचीत के माध्यम से यौवन से पहले ही विवाह तय कर दिए जाते हैं। शादी के बाद पत्नी पति के घर में आ जाती है। प्रसव के समय वह मायके में जाती है। पिता द्वारा बच्चों का उत्तर दायित्व लेने और पत्नी को मुआवजा देने के बाद तलाक की अनुमति देने की परंपरा है। किसी बात के लिए नापसन्द व्यक्ति का हुक्का-पानी बंद करने की एक सामाजिक बुराई मेघों में है। इसे तुच्छ मामलों में भी इस्तेमाल किया जाता है। इससे मेघ महिलाओं के लिए सामाजिक कठिनाइयाँ बढ़ी हैं। धर्म [ ] मेघवालों के प्रारम्भिक इतिहास या उनके धर्म के बारे में बहुत कम जानकारी उपलब्ध है। संकेत मिलते हैं कि ...