English: The map shows crime rate trends against Dalit (Scheduled Castes) population in India from 2001 to 2011 period.

The Indian government began tracking and reporting total crimes, crime by each category and crime rates per 100,000 against Dalits as a separate chapter in its Annual Crime Reports since the 1990s. The overall crimes and crime rate data has been tracked and reported in its Annual Crime Reports since 1953.

Crime rate in this chart is the broadest definition of crime under Indian law reported by the data source. It includes all IPC and SLL crimes, such as murder, attempted murder, death by negligence, arson, kidnapping, injury, theft, robbery, rape, assault, sexual harassment, riots, civil rights violation, crime of atrocity, cruelty by intimate partner or relatives, importation or trafficking of girls, persecution for dowry, dowry deaths, indecency, gambling, trespassing, violating local laws, and all other crimes covered under national and state laws of India.

Data Source: Incidence of Total Cognizable Crime (IPC) 1953-2011, Compendium of Crime in India, National Crime Research Bureau (NCRB), Union Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India (2012).

The data from the above single published report is also available electronically in individual annual crime reports from 2001 through 2011 here, under Publications tab, followed by Crime in India (1953-2012) sub-tab.

Notes: (1) The above chart plots the rate from the data source table, not the total number of crimes. The total number of crimes per year has risen, as has the total Dalit population. (2) The caste of the victim is tracked, but not of the allegedt. The total annual crime rate in this chart includes domestic violence against a Dalit as well crimes committed by anyone else, from any religion, caste, gender or ethnic group against the Dalit. (3) The chart uses the Indian data source reporting basis of per "lakh" (100,000), rather than United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) basis of per thousand (1000).