Dalit Involvement in Petty Entrepreneurship and Changes in their Socioeconomic Status

The ultimate goal of this paper is to broach some crucial information about the changing the livelihood status through petty enterprise among the lower caste people in South Asia. The paper has also assayed to provide the information about background of Dalit which is derived from the ancient Sanskrit dialect. Basically the word Dalit is the self picked and the political name in the sub continent. It intends to untouchable' for the most part of Dalit incorporated into the organization is utilizing as the words Schedule Caste SCs , Scheduled Tribes STs and other back word caste OBCs . First time the term Scheduled Caste CSs was utilized by the British government in the Government of India Act, 1935. Sociologically point of view SCs enduring the Stigma of untouchability and it was viewed as a hostile to sudras or Avarna in the Hindu Caste structure. But according to the Professor Gangadhar Pantawane, founder and editor of Asmitadarsh Mirror of Identity , the chief organ of Dalit literature, defines the word as follows, To me Dalit is not a caste. He is a man exploited by the social and economic traditions of this country. He does not believe in God, Rebirth, Soul, and Holy Books teaching separatism, Fate and Heaven because they have made him a slave. He does believe in humanism. Dalit is a symbol of change and revolution. Kushal Das Barthani | Mohammad Rubel | Md. Jahirul Islam "Dalit Involvement in Petty Entrepreneurship and Changes in their Socioeconomic Status" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-1 , December 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd29669.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/sociology/29669/dalit-involvement-in-petty-entrepreneurship-and-changes-in-their-socioeconomic-status/kushal-das-barthani