Untouchability in rural Punjab: An analysis

This study pledges to focus the extent and existing position regarding practice of untouchability in rural Punjab which is one of the most prosperous states of India and influenced by the Sikh religion which denounces any type of discrimination based on caste and creed. The response of 500 respondents (250 S.Cs and 250 non-S.Cs) to various queries leads to the conclusions that scheduled castes people still live on separate places in the villages, and living separately by scheduled castes and non-scheduled castes was found accepted. On the basis of empirical data various observations and subsequent analysis have been made on the behaviour-patterns of the different categories of people over the question of untouchability. As a complex pattern of belief system untouchability has been evaluated here in the perspective of the changing situation of the country and people.