Throughout history, Dalit women in India have been surrounded by a culture of silence. 
They have remained oblivious to the exploitation, persecution, and barbarism perpetrated 
against them. They have no control over their bodies, their wages, or their lives. Hunger,
 malnutrition,sickness, physical and mental torture, rape; illiteracy, ill-health, unemployment,
 insecurity, and inhuman treatment are all examples of extreme kinds of violence, exploitation,
 and oppression directed at them. Feudalism, casteism, and patriarchy have combined to make their
 lives a living misery. The vast majority of them live in the most perilous of circumstances.
 They are still living in a deeper age of cruelty in this age of modernism and postmodernism.