Hi Kalpana:

Whatever the type of violence, this happens because the government and its laws permit. The origin of this problem lies in the word CASTE, and how it is perceived from childhood. 

Regards.

Some numbers....

http://infochangeindia.org/human-rights/news/ncrb-statistics-show-growing-violence-against-women-dalits.html

http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6939:first-day-at-the-national-tribunal-violence-against-dalit-women-in-india&catid=119:feature&Itemid=132

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X07000150

I am finding far too little that is up-to-date on this topic.  For example,

Dalit women talk differently

G Guru - Economic and Political Weekly, 1995 - JSTOR

... question of rape cannot be grasped merely in terms of class, criminality, or as a psychological

aberration or an illustration of male violence. The caste factor also has to be taken into account

which makes sexual violence against dalit or tribal women much more severe in ...

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Dalit Women Talk Differently: A Critique of'Difference'and Towards a Dalit Feminist Standpoint Position

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... patriarchies as intrinsically linked is apparent in the in the anti-dowry, anti-rape and anti ... An analysis

of the practices of violence against women by caste would reveal that while the ... and sexuality

by the family are frequent among the dominant upper castes - dalit women are more ...

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[CITATION] Dalit movements and women's movements

G Dietrich - Gender & Caste, 2003 - Kali for Women

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[CITATION] Dalit women in India: issues and perspective

PG Jogdand - 1995 - Gyan Books

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G Kelkar - Freedom From Violence: Women's Strategies from …, 1992

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Problems for a contemporary theory of gender

S Tharu, T Niranjana - Social Scientist, 1994 - JSTOR

... For example, in the 19th century bhadratok campaigns against Vaishnav artistes as much as

in the anti-nautch initiatives in Madras ... logic that continues to operate, as for instance in the case

of Rameeza Bee and the Birati rapes: since the women crying rape were 'prostitutes ...

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Refugees, race, and gender: The multiple discrimination against refugee women

E Pittaway, L Bartolomei - Refuge: Canada's Journal on …, 2001 - pi.library.yorku.ca

... raped, it was equally painful to realize that was Caucasian men who were raping them. This ...

It brought the rape and sexual abuse of women in such situations to the public ... The majority of

women raped and sexually abused in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia were never ...

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Organizing against violence: Strategies of the Indian women's movement

MF Katzenstein - Pacific Affairs, 1989 - JSTOR

... Both women had been raped in police custody, and their husbands who had protested their ... The

politics of the mobilization against sexual violence is most clearly illustrated through a ... Activists

also organized around rape and battering, and in 1984-85 worked with widows in the ...

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... When women are abused in custody, when they are raped by armed forces as “spoils of war ...

Women are traumatized and injured by rape, wherever the crime takes place. ... in the report featured

some groundbreaking issues (eg, human rights violations against dalit women in India ...

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[BOOK] Protest, policy, and the problem of violence against women: A cross-national comparison

SL Weldon - 2002 - books.google.com

... In Canada, in 1991, the Supreme Court struck down the1983 “rape shield law” that had protected

women reporting rapes from having their ... In Italy, women's movement activists lobbied the

government on the issue of violence against women for twenty years without success. ...

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S Al-Issa - 1998 - Pencraft International

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... In 1998 the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan reported that one person is raped every 354 ...

Such cases are often compounded in the rural areas of gang rape of Dalit women ... In Pakistan,

the Alliance Against Sexual Harassment in the Workplace claimed that 93% of women ...

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Caste and gender: understanding dynamics of power and violence

V Kannabiran, K Kannabiran - Economic and political weekly, 1991 - JSTOR

... At one of the public meetings organised to protest against this incident, a dalit political leader

is ... The provocation for the upper caste men who raped the dalit leader was two- fold: First, in ...

belonging to the lower castes confront heir being policed by upper caste men, rape is the ...

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... However, unlike earlier in the campaigns against rape or dowry various groups did not ... linked

with issues of violence perpetrated by upper caste men against lower caste ... the movement has

not adequately addressed questions of difference particularly in relation to dalit women. ...

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... to beatings and gang rapes. Even when a Dalit woman is raped it is often not called 'rape'.

According to the report of the SC/ST Commission (Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe Commission)

of 2002, there has been an 8% rise in crimes against women, especially Dalit women. ...

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... with resignation that the senior council members of refugee camps denied the rapes right away ...

regard an early marriage of their daughters as the only protection against rape – and thus ... in which

the men tsunami victim turned aggressive offender who raped women in refugee ...

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... 126 1248 110 388 66.63 5.87 1996 1933 102 1407 85 389 72.79 4.40 Rape 1991 1408 ... 52 100

All 100 When Neelam, a newly-married girl belonging to the Dalit com- munity ... Bachran, her father

took the help of Vanangana members and lodged a complaint against the husband ...

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Yes. There are various discrimination against Dalit women. You might can find some updates through CEDAW reports or any UN or regional reports related.

Mala Sen, "Death by Fire: Sati, Dowry Death, and Female Infanticide in Modern India" (Rutgers Press 200) is a good starting point on this issue of violence a'gsnt Dalit women.

Good luck in yr research

Hi Kalpana,

First of all I would like to mention you that violence against women is not restricted to only dalit women. But you can find  violence against women in other caste and even in higher society also. But  When we are talking about dalits then the main reason behind the violence is poverty, alcoholic husband, illiteracy and lack of information about the provision of law which is available to all women for there protection. You can get more details of such cases from  your nearest Mahila Police Station or from special police officer appointed under Domestic Violence Act. One more thing I would like to suggest you that Even though we had lots of law for the protection of women but some where we were lacking behind in its proper implications.

To my perception please find very impressive article regarding diversity and cosmopolitan democracy based case study of Dalits in India. Published by Journal Global Constitutionalism.

 LUIS CABRERA (2015). Diversity and cosmopolitan democracy: Avoiding global

democratic relativism. Global Constitutionalism, 4, pp 18-48 doi:10.1017/

S2045381714000185

I hope that this prism of understanding will exactly help you.

Good Luck!

Hi Kalpana,

The experiences of Dalit women are not my specific area of expertise. I would however suggest, if it is at all possible,  speak with Dalit women and get their view and the perpetrators too - get the participants view.

It's a common scenario everywhere but still unseen.