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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.1/xsd/JATS-journalpublishing1-mathml3.xsd" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.1" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">isrdo-SRJAHS</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="pmc">isrdo-SRJAHS</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">isrdo-SRJAHS</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Scientific Research Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher" pub-type="epub">SRJAHS</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn>2584-0622</issn><publisher><publisher-name>ISRDO</publisher-name><publisher-loc>Gujarat,India</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">M-10006</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="categories"><subject>Anthropology</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Present-Day Dalit Repositioning in Rural Bihar's Social Hierarchy</article-title></title-group><contrib-group content-type="authors"><contrib id="11" contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name><given-names>Pushpesh Reddy</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1">1</xref><aff id="aff-1"><label>0</label><institution>Patna University, Bihar, India</institution><country>India</country></aff></contrib></contrib-group><contrib-group content-type="editors"><contrib contrib-type="editor"/></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub" data-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-12-26"><day>26</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2">2022</year></pub-date><volume>1</volume><elocation-id>V1-I1-2023</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2022-12-09"><day>09</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2022">2022</year></date><date date-type="revised" iso-8601-date="2022-12-19"><day>19</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2022"/></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2022-12-19"><day>19</day><month>12</month><year iso-8601-date="2022"/></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#xA9;2022 Krupali Patel Year Corresponding Author</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Krupali Patel</copyright-holder><license href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (ISRDO) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution License</ext-link></license-p></license></permissions><self-uri href="https://isrdo.org/journal/SRJAHS/currentissue/present-day-dalit-repositioning-in-rural-bihars-social-hierarchy"/><abstract><p>The modernization-induced uptick in Dalits' awareness of their own existence, their sense of self-identity, and the difficulty of adjusting to other groups is only one of three primary identity-related variables that have emerged as a result of the influence of new socio-economic pressures. A society's level of safety relies on its level of social progress and the warmth of its relationships within it. Questions of fairness include how some people are prevented from sharing in the advantages of economic growth while others are given an unfair share. The path of rural Bihar's social dynamics was set by these interconnected problems. Significant progress has been made in the state of Bihar during the last several decades, and social cohesion and the prevalence of untouchability have both improved. Several key measures of human development in the state have shown steady improvement in recent years. Growth has not been equitably distributed across all segments of society. As a group, Dalits are far less developed than the general population. The state government of Bihar formed the Mahadalit commission and launched a slew of training initiatives to help its citizens acquire the necessary job skills to reach this objective. This work has the potential to shake up established societal norms. The primary focus of this research has been on the Dalit and non-Dalit relationships in Bihar, as well as the dynamics within the Dalit community itself. The data for the empirical research was gathered through planned interviews with both primary and secondary sources. important conclusions were drawn from the research, such as the fact that untouchability has not been entirely eradicated from society but has been significantly decreased.</p></abstract><kwd-group kwd-group-type="author"><kwd>Untouchability</kwd><kwd> Dalit</kwd><kwd> Development</kwd><kwd> Caste</kwd><kwd> Bihar</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement>The authors did not receive any specific grants from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><sec sec-type="data-availability"><title>Data Availability</title><p>Not applicable</p></sec><sec sec-type="COI-statement"><title>Conflicts of Interest</title><p>All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.</p></sec><sec sec-type="author-contributions"><title>Authors&#x2019; Contributions</title><p>The author confirms sole responsibility for the following: study conception and design, data collection, analysis and interpretation of results, and manuscript preparation.</p></sec><sec sec-type="funding-statement"><title>Funding Statement</title><p>The authors did not receive any specific grants from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or non-profit sectors for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.</p></sec><sec sec-type="software-information"><title>software-information</title><p>Not applicable</p></sec><ack><title>Acknowledgments</title><p>I thank the following individuals for their expertise and assistance in all aspects of our study and for their help in writing the manuscript. I am also grateful for the insightful comments given by anonymous peer reviewers. Everyone's generosity and expertise have improved this study in myriad ways and saved me from many errors.</p></ack><ref-list content-type="authoryear"><ref id="1"><label>1</label><element-citation publication-type="journal"><p>Ghuriye, G S, 1932,reprint 1969,Caste and race In India published by popular prakashan Bombay</p></element-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>
