Claim: According to the 2011 census, the Scheduled Castes, sometimes referred to as Dalit, meaning "broken/scattered" in Sanskrit, comprise about 13.9% of the total population of Garha Brahman.
Evidence: Scheduled caste 141 The Scheduled Caste (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are officially designated groups of people in India. Dalit (Sanskrit: दलित, romanized: dälit), meaning "broken/scattered" in Sanskrit and Hindi, is a name for people belonging to the lowest caste in India characterized as "untouchable". In September 2018, the government "issued an advisory to all private satellite channels asking them to 'refrain' from using the nomenclature 'Dalit'", though "rights groups and intellectuals have come out against any shift from 'Dalit' in popular usage".