Educational Mobility among Dalit Women in Patna (Bihar) District: A comparative study between two Blocks

Dalit education

This paper has been tried to examine various aspects of the educational Mobility of Dalit women in Patna district. Educational mobility is the indicator of social change and social progress. It is the movement of an individual or a group in a social structure. Dalit are traditionally untouchable and depressed class in India According to Verna system they are bottom on the line and are excluded from educational system and property .After Independence; Indian traditional society has undergone a change due to various factors, e.g., urbanisation, changing occupational structure, rising literacy, democratic value system, Constitutional and legal measures for protective discrimination. Government started socially desirable and economically viable developmental measures to protect equality of opportunity of every individual. But all social groups have not benefited equally in last seven decades .Scheduled Castes (Dalit, used in exclusive sense of the term) is designated as a ‘disadvantaged group’ even today. A stock-taking of the status of Dalits reveals that the problem of dignity and freedom from poverty, illiteracy, and unemployment remained unresolved. The paper is descriptive and analytical in design, based on primary and secondary both sources of data.

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