ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on understanding the role of education in Dalit lives. The dehumanization of the Dalit population due to the caste system has been a living example of how more than 16 million people became the victims of an unjust social order. Indian history is replete with instances of how Dalits have been engaged in waging wars against caste. Naturally, Dalits and other constituencies such as Adivasis, Shudras and women could not avail themselves of opportunities like their counterparts. It is a well-known fact that modern education in India remained an exclusive domain of upper-caste men until the British came and upset the power structure of Indian society. The struggle for humanization, for the emancipation of labour, for the overcoming of alienation, for the affirmation of men and women as persons would be meaningless. There are references to India’s freedom struggle, the roles of the Congress Party and the Muslim League.
