By conducting a public opinion survey among Dalits in villages with and without representation quotas, the research is able to evaluate the effects of state and community-level actions aimed at promoting the well-being of marginalized communities. The research utilizes 'natural ex-periment' settings in the Indian state of Rajasthan, where official quotas currently exist in some village councils. The study argues that the Dalits' opinion on their social status depends not only on whether they are represented through official quotas, but also on community engagement through local NGOs. The article suggests that while formal representation creates an environment for intergroup contact, NGOs' communal engagement further promotes such contact and empowers the respective communities to challenge prevailing stereotypes. This study investigates how official representation quotas and communal engagement of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) reinforce each other in promoting improved social treatment of a marginal-ized community, Dalits. However, we know little about how these separate arrangements together impact the human rights situations of marginalized communities. Government policies and non-government agencies often intend to create socioeconomic security and empower marginalized communities. Finally, in the third part, it presents Ambedkar's theory of recognition as a normative ideal, which encapsulates the project of emancipation. In the second part, it interrogates and engages with the different discourses of recognition. The first part of this paper tries to problematize the idea of recognition. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste exposes such a gap and seeks to devise a more capable normative alternative theory.

This creates a contradiction or incoherence within the theory. However, the scope of existing theories of recognition is limited as they propose new values without adequately displacing the old ones.

The various theories of recognition aim towards establishing human good as a normative ethical ideal. The oppressed community's struggle for recognition then becomes necessary in order to be able to live a good life. Despite the democratic upsurge, the traditional social value system perpetuates oppression, humiliation and violence against the oppressed communities, groups and individuals.

An annihilation of caste