Kawale, Laxman2019-09-252019-09-252013-12-312012-01http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/198641Dalits, as the ex-untouchables prefer to be called, are a very distinct social group. While belonging to a broad class of have-nots they suffer an additional disability of social oppression. Economically, most of them are still the poorest of poor. There is a need for the dalits movement to emerge as a movement for genuine emancipation and social transformation of weaker sections of the society. Social justice is a fundamental principle of democratic principles engaged in a politics of social transformation, to bring about a fundamental defeat of the brahminical social order. It is a change in the present economist definition of such transformation and strives for its redefinition in social terms.engCreative Commons Copyright (CC 2.5)SecularizationHindu ethicsCaste systemPolitical ethicsEthics of lawRights based legal ethicsCultural ethicsCultural/intercultural ethicsSecularisation and ethicsMethods of ethicsGeneral and historicalCommunity ethicsLifestyle ethicsEducation and ethicsEthnicity and ethicsMinority ethicsArticle