Abstract
Education and caste Hindu attitude of the Harijans
P. Shanker
In order to determine the impact of college education on the caste Hindu attitude of the Harijans, two groups of adult male Harijans-twenty each-were selected for study, one of the groups consisted of college going students while the other did not have any education, The groups were equated on such factors as age, sex, family income etc. The attitude-affect was assessed by open-ended questions, subjective impressions and from an incident involving a caste Hindu. The favourable and the unfavourable stereotypes regarding caste Hindus were also obtained. Although there was no difference between the two groups in the attitude-affect, there was significant difference between them in the caste Hindu stereotypes. Total number of stereotypes as well as the number of unfavourable stereotypes were significantly large in the educated group. The results indicate a difference in the cognitive component of attitude which is more unfavourable in the educated as compared to the non-educated group.