Dalit Christians Struggle for Justice in the Indian Sub-continent

In the wake of the contextual theologies world over, specific theologies with existential concerns have taken form. In the India-Subcontinent the women sliberation, ecological liberation; and with the specific influence of the black theology and the liberation theology, Dalit theology became a possibility in its particular socio-economic, political and religious context. Human tendencies seem to be universally common and oppression of the weak has been a ubiquitous dynamic showing different faces in different continents and countries. Dalit theology in India stands out with its undergirding principle of pathos, and hermeneutical principle of reading the scripture with the eyes of the poor1) and oppressed.