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##Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduled_Caste_and_Scheduled_Tribe_(Prevention_of_Atrocities)_Act,_1989
The Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 an Act of the Parliament of India enacted to prevent atrocities against scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. The Act is popularly known as POA, the SC/ST Act, the Prevention of Atrocities Act, or simply the Atrocities Act.
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####About the community:
> The Musahars are a Hindu Out Caste (Without Any Caste). For their growth and development they have been given scheduled caste status for political benefits as SCs have reservation in the Indian 'reservation system'. **The poor community which was earlier very weak is found in the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in India, and Terai of Nepal. They are also known as Banbasi and on the plateau as Manjhi. ** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musahar
> Far away from the high-decibel political campaigns in Indiaβs parliamentary elections, a group of semi-naked children frantically search for something to eat in the marshland of their village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar.
> These children belong to the Musahar community ("Musahar" meaning "rat eaters" in Bhojpuri), a socially marginalised community placed at the bottom rung of India's hierarchical caste system.
> About 250 families from the community have been living in Kubaul village in Darbhanga district for the past 150 years.
> "Earlier our meals were dependent on the availability of rats and grains that we would procure from the rat holes," Malhu Sada, 74, a member of the community, told Al Jazeera. "However, things are changing for some families as their children have gone to different states to work. We now catch rats mostly during the harvesting season."
> "All the neighbouring villages have electricity with all the basic amenities, but we still live in such inhuman conditions. There arenβt any schools and the nearest school is 2km away," Kusum Lal, 72, said.
> "Children have to cross a river to reach school and the river is full throughout the season. During the rainy season, our village gets cut off from everything as we donβt even have a road to reach our village. Our demand is 'road nahi, toh vote nahi' (No road, no vote)," he added.
> The community found in the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh are landless and donβt have their own livestock. While some manage to buy food, most still have to procure food every day, which involves scrounging whatever they can such as small fish, snails and even cockroaches.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2014/04/pictures-rat-eaters-india-201443081544438226.html
> One of the starkest examples of this is of the Musahar communities of eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. In a paper for the forthcoming India Exclusion Report of the Centre for Equity Studies, Sajjad Hassan tries to u
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Entire post copied verbatim from Swarajya article:
Sayajirao Gaekwad III (1863β1939), the Maharaja of Baroda State from 1875 to 1939.
In 1892, the Maharaja and Aurobindo met. Sayajirao Gaekwad asked him to take up a teaching job in Baroda University.
From February 1893 to February 1906, Sri Aurobindo spent full thirteen years in Baroda. He ended up as both the Vice-Principal of the college as well as the kingβs personal secretary.
In this capacity, Sri Aurobindo also wrote the speeches for the king. This was also the time Sri Aurobindo was contributing to the magazines run by freedom fighters in Bengal.
The British already had their doubts about the Baroda king as being sympathetic to the Hindu revolutionaries. British officials, including the regent, started giving trouble to the ruler and Aurobindo being in the employ of the princely state was one of the major causes.
But far from being disturbed by that, the king was defiant. For example, the British had banned Bengalis from joining the military. But the Baroda king gave military training to Jatin Bannerji, one of Aurobindo's friends, making him join the Baroda cavalry.
Sri Aurobindo, not wanting to cause any problem for the king, left Baroda. The king requested Sri Aurobindo not to leave. But Aurobindo was already determined. He took up a job in Bengal that paid only one-fifth of the salary of what he got in Baroda.
Even after Sri Aurobindo left, the British viewed the king with strong suspicion.
In his secret letter to the British government, Viceroy Hardinge traced the hostility that the king had for the British 'to the pernicious influence of the Poona Brahminsβ who 'with a concerted object ...kept up a constant glorification of the Gaekwad.'
The letter also speaks of the influence Aurobindo had on the king even years after he had left, observing that 'his employment in the State gave a great impetus to the anti-British movement.'
Then there was an 'akhara', a wrestling club in the heart of Baroda that was run by Hindu monks, which the report pointed out, was where 'sedition has been openly preached ... without any opposition from the State police.'
**The intelligence reports of the British also spoke about Shankar Wagh, a
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