The converted Dalit Christians have not seen the "light" except for the small amount received while converting. Read the deatails:
EPW carries an interesting article-cum-report on the plight of Dalit Christians. It appears to be well-researched and replete with historical, contemporary, and statistical data. Prakash Louis, the author, argues that Dalit Christians have been betrayed on all counts and from everybody including the Church.
I argue that his premise is flawed for a most fundamental reason: you cannot be a Dalit and a Christian at the same time. In the larger scheme of things, I also argue how this phenomenon threatens the India of a unified India. The term Dalit--Harijan if you will--is exclusively Hindu. If you call yourself a Dalit, you are Hindu. One rallying point of Evangelists against Hinduism in their conversion melas is the promise of equal social treatment. But as this report proves, the promise is never honoured.
Many studies have revealed that conversion to Christianity does not change the social condition of the dalits. Caste discrimination within the Indian Christian community is more than 100 years old according to this report, and persists.
Historical data abound with caste segregation and discrimination within the church right from its inception. The cathedral at Tiruchirappalli, built between 1839 and 1841 was provided with the customary caste bar. In some places, the dalits had their own churches, in other places they attended the se
