Centre for Study of Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy(CSSEIP), University of Jammu organized an Online Interactive lecture. Prof.Jasbir Singh, Hon. Director CSSEIP welcomed the guests and introduced the theme by focussing on the relevance of Dalit studies for scholars from diverse streams to generate awareness and discussion on communities so as to come out of traditional setups and mechanisms should be known to them to come out of these exclusionary practices. The speaker for the interaction was Dr Khwaja Mohd.Ziyauddin, from the Department of Sociology and Alberuini Centre for the study of Social Exclusion & Inclusive Policy, Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad. The title of the talk was “ Unread  Social History of Dalits in India: Reflections from the field”. He started his lecture by focussing on the historical background of Dalits. The Dalits had traditional occupations but with a distinct difference. By and large, their occupations were least desirable and defiling. The regional variations in occupation among Dalits are important, but mainly two categories of occupations were popular, namely, cleaning and leather processing. In independent India, the process of institutionalisation of manual scavenging started taking place. The Indian Railways is perhaps the largest rail network in the world, employing the largest number of manual scavengers. Focussing on his field experiences he said that there is a rare probability of marginalised and excluded occupational category of Dalits; Hadis, reap the benefit of equality and equity in all the spheres of man’s life. Unlike Dr B R Ambedkar did indeed give birth to a movement that encompassed all the needs of human society – economic, social, cultural, political and spiritual. Debating about changing occupations would be meaningless unless we understand the socio-cultural and political background of the community. The students put up certain queries and were answered by the resource person. Dr.Neharica Subhash presented a vote of thanks and conducted the proceedings of the event.