A study on the relationship of poverty with untouchability practices

Poverty is a complex and much contested social phenomenon. Different authors have defined poverty from various perspectives. The definition of poverty by the author determines how that particular mechanism developed by them tried to combat the phenomena or what the ethical conception of social justice is based upon. Townsend relied on absolute and relative perspective whereas Rawls envisage about the just society with difference principle. Sen focuses on the lack of ability to make choice as poor to develop capability approach. To this, Sangroula opines lack of access to commodities and development, and social exclusion as three deprivations thereby leading to poverty. This article bases its empirical research of the villages of Kavre and Ramechhap district on the above 3 deprivation to analyze the multidimensional approaches to poverty. This study aims to figure out whether poverty as a cause of untouchability practices through stratified random sampling of 34 individuals