Current Situation
visible forms of untouchability practiced in andhra pradesh
- Denial of access to common water sources
- Denial of access to common water sources until completion of dominant caste usage
- Cutting off of water supply to Dalit locality
- Cutting off of electricity supply to Dalit locality
- Compulsory use of separate drinking vessels in hotels
- Prohibition to sit on par with dominant caste in public or private places
- Denial of common meals until conclusion of public functions
- Denial of common dish-washing services after meals at public functions
- Denial of entry into temples
- Denial to sit on par with non-Dalits in churches
- Prohibition to wear footwear in dominant caste locality
- Prohibition to open umbrella in dominant caste locality
- Prohibition to wear nice or expensive clothes in dominant caste locality
- Must rise from a cot in presence of dominant castes
- Must rise from a bus seat in presence of dominant castes
- Segregated seating in buses
- Segregated seating in schools
- Prohibition to sit in Raccha Banda (meeting place of village council)
- Denial of opportunity to rent/purchase housing in dominant caste locality
- Insult and abuse by caste name
- Compulsory drum playing at dominant caste funerals and religious ceremonies
- Preventing exercise of franchise
- Removing names from voter list
- Intimidation in elections
- Compulsory bonded labour
- Denial of right to livelihood
- Denial of minimum wage as per law
- Prohibition of Dalit religious processions through dominant caste locality
- Denial of irrigation water
- Denial of cultivation rights
- Preventing elected Dalit leaders from exercising powers of offices to which they were elected
- Denial of stream access except below dominant caste locality for clothes washing
- Segregated ghats (bathing spots) at common bodies of water
- Refusal of common hair cutting services
- Humiliation of well-dressed and educated Dalits
- Compulsory labour: removing carcasses
- Compulsory labour: removing human excreta by hand (manual scavenging)
- Denial of right to change occupation
- Compulsory, unpaid, "traditional" labour services during dominant caste religious ceremonies
