Imma normie please give me a history lesson
####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
... keep reading on reddit β‘##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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