Explanation of Deprivation: Sociologists generally use the phrase or term "social problems." Our society is divided into a number of sections based on caste, age and sex. Some sections of the Indian society have been resourceless and powerless in comparison to other dominant sections. But when they fail to adjust themselves to the changing times, the result is social disorganization leading to social problems. Thus a discriminatory and in human behaviour (e.g. based on caste or feeling of low or upper caste or feeling of advanced and backwardness, or based on gender or sex-male and female, and based on age, children, youth and old people etc.) appears in society. This gives rise to social problems in the form of deprivation.
Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other Backward Classes are included in deprived sections of the Indian society.
(a) Scheduled Castes (SCs) are those castes which were placed at the bottom in the traditional caste system. Usually they used to perform clean occupations. So they were treated as polluted or impure. The concept of pollution attached to them had made them untouchable. They had to suffer from the following types of disabilities:
(i) No physical contact with the people of the so called upper castes.
(ii) Ban on the use of common wells and tanks.
(iii) Prohibited from entering the Temple.
(iv) Did not receive service from other occupational caste.
(v) Non-acceptance of cooked food.
The Scheduled castes were deprived of their economic rights. So that remaining poor and dependent upon others. They have to face the following problems:
(a) Material Deprivation.
(b) Landlessness.
(c) Educational Backwardness.
(d) Low level government jobs, posts and services.
(e) Indebtedness and Bonded labour.
