how do you define 'Dalit'?

Answer 1

I just looked it up.
Thanks for the question; I didn't know this term.
Here is an article from one of the many sites online discussing this concept; maybe other users who don't know this term either will find it thought-provoking:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0602_030602_untouchables.html

Answer 2

In the Indian caste system, a Dalit, often called an untouchable, or an outcaste, is a person who according to traditional Hindu belief does not have any "varnas". Varna refers to the Hindu belief that most humans were supposedly created from different parts of the body of the divinity Purusha. The part from which a varna was supposedly created defines a person's social status with regards to issues such as who they can marry and which professions they could hold. Dalits fall outside the varnas system and have historically been prevented from doing any but the most menial jobs. (However, a distinction must be made between lower-caste people and Pariahs.) Included are leather-workers (called chamar), poor farmers and landless laborers, night soil scavengers (called bhangi or chura), street handicrafters, folk artists, clothes washers dhobi etc. Traditionally, they were treated as pariahs in South Asian society and isolated in their own communities, to the point that even their shadows were avoided by the upper castes. Discrimination against Dalits still exists in rural areas in the private sphere, in ritual matters such as access to eating places and water sources. It has largely disappeared, however, in urban areas and in the public sphere, in rights of movement and access to schools. The earliest rejection of discrimination, at least in spiritual matters, was made as far back as the Bhagavada Gita, which says even they (along with women and despicable foreigners) are not barred from enlightenment.

Answer 3

As an ordinary definition, Dalit is who born in dalit family

Answer 4

Dalit is term associated with a group of down trodden people of India who have been suppressed by other groups to live a marginal life from centuries. As a result of that they live life of untouchables, aboriginals and work like bonded labour.

Answer 5

'' Innocent Literates '' called Dalits, and that's why All Governments taken a Vow to uplift them, and as of now succeeded.

Answer 6

below the poverty line is the dalit!

Answer 7

the people who separated by the caste Hindus in all means
and suffer the untouchablity in all walk of life. for so many thousands year in the name of religion