Violence against Dalits is systematic, pervasive, and vastly underreported

Evidence

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, a crime is committed against a Dalit by a non-Dalit every sixteen minutes; every day, more than four Untouchable women are raped by Touchables; every week, thirteen Dalits are murdered and six Dalits are kidnapped. In 2012 alone, the year of the Delhi gang-rape and murder, 1,574 Dalit women were raped (the rule of thumb is that only 10 per cent of rapes or other crimes against Dalits are ever reported), and 651 Dalits were murdered. That’s just the rape and butchery. Not the stripping and parading naked, the forced shit-eating (literally), the seizing of land, the social boycotts, the restriction of access to drinking water. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 36

Categorization

• QUESTION: What mechanisms keep only ~10% of crimes against Dalits from ever being reported — police refusal, social pressure, or something else? Worth chasing the National Crime Records Bureau methodology.
• XREF: connects to: State-linked extrajudicial violence against Tamils was systematic and wide-scale — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 338; Global outrage over caste violence against Dalit girls remains strikingly absent — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 26