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The Dalit Tag Still Sticks Despite Converting To Sikhism
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<blockquote data-quote="Archived_Member16" data-source="post: 103038" data-attributes="member: 884"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">source: <a href="http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-52633.html" target="_blank">The Dalit tag still sticks despite converting to Sikhism .:. NewKerala - India 's Top Online Newspaper</a></span></span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #000080">The Dalit tag still sticks despite converting to Sikhism</span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080"><strong>By Imran Khan, Patna, June 9 :</strong> <em>It is a centuries-old ignominy they wanted to escape by converting to Sikhism in </em></span><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><em>Punjab</em></span></span></span><em><span style="color: #000080"> and found new respect there. But back </span></em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><em><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">home in Bihar, the tag of Dalit refused to leave them.</span></span></em></span></span><a href="http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-52633.html#" target="_blank"></a></p><p> <a href="http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-52633.html#" target="_blank"></a></p><p><a href="http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-52633.html#" target="_blank"></a></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Many Dalit labourers who migrated to Punjab for work years ago and converted to</span><span style="color: #000080">during their stay there are upset that they are still being categorised as Scheduled Caste in government </span><a href="http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-52633.html#" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">records</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #000080"> after they returned to their native villages in Bihar. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Sanjay Singh, who converted to Sikhism during his years-long stay in Punjab and sports a colourful turban and a long beard, says local and district administration officials in Bihar are not ready to accept him as a Sikh. </span><a href="http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-52633.html#" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Guru </span></span></span></a><span style="color: #000080">the founder of Sikhism, preached against discrimination and prejudices on the basis of caste, class and status. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">"The government officials are still treating us as Rishideo of the Musahar caste (the poorest Dalit community known as rat eaters), not as Sikhs, despite our efforts to convince them," Singh told IANS, adding that he was yet to be termed a Sikh in the government records despite repeated requests. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Singh said that about two decades ago his close relative Naren Rishideo left for Punjab to earn a livelihood and converted to the Sikh religion, becoming Naren Singh. His example was followed by most of those of his caste men working there. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">"We tasted dignity, respect and equality after we converted. Before that, we were treated as low caste, sometimes even inferior to animals, by the upper caste and backward caste people in the village," Sanjay Singh said. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">He said most of the women members of their families have now started using the Kaur surname. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Rup Singh and Manish Singh, who also converted to Sikhism, are no longer keen to be known as Rishideos and want that they should be treated as Sikhs in government records. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">"We changed our religion to get rid of the stigma of untouchablity and to live a life with pride. We were happy to return to our village. Local people, barring a few, accepted us as Sikh, but in the government records and caste certificates we have the same old Dalit tag," Rup Singh told IANS. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Soon after they returned to their village Halhalia in Araria district, nearly 400 km from Patna, they were shocked to learn that despite the change of religion they would have to fight another battle to upgrade their social status in official records. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">"All the Dalits who converted to the Sikh religion are still Dalits in the caste certificate and we are being denied the status of the Sikhs," Rup Singh said. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Manish Singh, another convert, says that they are no longer Dalits after embracing the Sikh religion and they should instead be treated as minorities as Sikhs are a minority community in the country. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">A large number of migrant labourers from Bihar who converted to Sikhism in Punjab and stayed back there hardly face any identity problem, but the converts who returned to their native villages in Bihar are facing a different discrimination, Manish Singh said. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Araria district magistrate Anjani Kumar Verma, when asked about the problem, told IANS over telephone that he was not aware of the matter. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">"So far no such complaint has come to my notice. If there is anything like it, the district administration will do justice with them," Verma said. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000080">Over 200 Dalit villagers of half a dozen villages including Kamta Balia, Gurumuhi, and Parmanpur under the Khwaspur panchayat (village council) have already converted to Sikhism. They have set up a gurdwara with support of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), while some Sikhs from New </span><span style="color: #000080"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Delhi</span></span></span><span style="color: #000080"> are helping them to maintain it. </span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000080">--- IANS</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Archived_Member16, post: 103038, member: 884"] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]source: [URL="http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-52633.html"]The Dalit tag still sticks despite converting to Sikhism .:. NewKerala - India 's Top Online Newspaper[/URL][/COLOR][/SIZE] [B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#000080]The Dalit tag still sticks despite converting to Sikhism[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080][B]By Imran Khan, Patna, June 9 :[/B] [I]It is a centuries-old ignominy they wanted to escape by converting to Sikhism in [/I][/COLOR][COLOR=#000080][FONT=Arial][FONT=Arial][I]Punjab[/I][/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][I][COLOR=#000080] and found new respect there. But back [/COLOR][/I][FONT=Arial][I][COLOR=#000080][FONT=Arial]home in Bihar, the tag of Dalit refused to leave them.[/FONT][/COLOR][/I][/FONT][/SIZE][URL="http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-52633.html#"] [/URL] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]Many Dalit labourers who migrated to Punjab for work years ago and converted to[/COLOR][COLOR=#000080]during their stay there are upset that they are still being categorised as Scheduled Caste in government [/COLOR][URL="http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-52633.html#"][COLOR=#000080][FONT=Arial][FONT=Arial]records[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][/URL][COLOR=#000080] after they returned to their native villages in Bihar. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]Sanjay Singh, who converted to Sikhism during his years-long stay in Punjab and sports a colourful turban and a long beard, says local and district administration officials in Bihar are not ready to accept him as a Sikh. [/COLOR][URL="http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-52633.html#"][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000080][FONT=Arial]Guru [/FONT][/COLOR][/FONT][/URL][COLOR=#000080]the founder of Sikhism, preached against discrimination and prejudices on the basis of caste, class and status. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]"The government officials are still treating us as Rishideo of the Musahar caste (the poorest Dalit community known as rat eaters), not as Sikhs, despite our efforts to convince them," Singh told IANS, adding that he was yet to be termed a Sikh in the government records despite repeated requests. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]Singh said that about two decades ago his close relative Naren Rishideo left for Punjab to earn a livelihood and converted to the Sikh religion, becoming Naren Singh. His example was followed by most of those of his caste men working there. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]"We tasted dignity, respect and equality after we converted. Before that, we were treated as low caste, sometimes even inferior to animals, by the upper caste and backward caste people in the village," Sanjay Singh said. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]He said most of the women members of their families have now started using the Kaur surname. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]Rup Singh and Manish Singh, who also converted to Sikhism, are no longer keen to be known as Rishideos and want that they should be treated as Sikhs in government records. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]"We changed our religion to get rid of the stigma of untouchablity and to live a life with pride. We were happy to return to our village. Local people, barring a few, accepted us as Sikh, but in the government records and caste certificates we have the same old Dalit tag," Rup Singh told IANS. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]Soon after they returned to their village Halhalia in Araria district, nearly 400 km from Patna, they were shocked to learn that despite the change of religion they would have to fight another battle to upgrade their social status in official records. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]"All the Dalits who converted to the Sikh religion are still Dalits in the caste certificate and we are being denied the status of the Sikhs," Rup Singh said. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]Manish Singh, another convert, says that they are no longer Dalits after embracing the Sikh religion and they should instead be treated as minorities as Sikhs are a minority community in the country. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]A large number of migrant labourers from Bihar who converted to Sikhism in Punjab and stayed back there hardly face any identity problem, but the converts who returned to their native villages in Bihar are facing a different discrimination, Manish Singh said. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]Araria district magistrate Anjani Kumar Verma, when asked about the problem, told IANS over telephone that he was not aware of the matter. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]"So far no such complaint has come to my notice. If there is anything like it, the district administration will do justice with them," Verma said. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][COLOR=#000080]Over 200 Dalit villagers of half a dozen villages including Kamta Balia, Gurumuhi, and Parmanpur under the Khwaspur panchayat (village council) have already converted to Sikhism. They have set up a gurdwara with support of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), while some Sikhs from New [/COLOR][COLOR=#000080][FONT=Arial][FONT=Arial]Delhi[/FONT][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000080] are helping them to maintain it. [/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#000080]--- IANS[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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