In the traditional Indian caste system Dalit is a member of the caste that is considered the lowest and that has the fewest advantages. Dalits are suffering from the ancient period. Socially they were profane to upper castes. They were not allowed into upper castes house, temple, cultural function, social gatherings, etc. They are socially and economically abused and always treated as a slave. They were not allowed to do a good job. For that reason from ancient period hereditarily they have been doing worst job of society like Swineherd, Methor (sweeper), Dhoom (member of lower caste who is assigned to burning the dead and looking after the crematorium), cobbler, washer man, barber, etc. Approximately 4.5 million dalits live in Bangladesh where also Muslim dalits are included. As a minority Hindu dalits are more marginal than Muslims.

In Bangladesh, most of the Hindu dalits are the descendant of Indians. British colonial government and some Zeminders (Landlord) bring them from various places of India like Bihar, Kanpur, Hasirbag, Jabbalpur of North state and Andrapradesh for slavery during their colonial time. Who are known to people as Harijon, Sweeper, Dhoom and their colony always build-up far from main habitants which known Methorpotti or Horijonpotti or Sweeper colony. Where, sixty five percent people are illiterate and very low income. This social discrimination has changed very little. Lots of changes have entered in our modern lives but still they are making their living with those hereditary professions.

Swine herding is an ancient profession. In Bangladesh, swineherds lead an unusual gypsy life with herds. Their family live in a particular place and men go out with their herd to various places to feed pigs, constantly moving and living in tents of bamboo and plastic paper. They usually stay three to four days in each place. Sometimes it might be a day or a week depending on the availability of pig-food.

As a part of my personal project about Dalit, I started to capture arduous lifestyle of Swineherds to show the social discrimination of our so called civilized society of twenty first century. I would bring them in focus through my photographs to the audience to make a social awareness to treat them as human and reduce the social discrimination.