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This paper is an effort to evaluate the quality of life of the women belonging to the scheduled caste. It also highlights the other major issues like underlying vulnerability, social exclusion, and inclusion of women belonging to the scheduled castes, especially in the rural taluk of Davanagere district. We have now begun to recognize the linkages between social exclusion and high levels of deprivation and poverty of social groups that have suffered such exclusion and differential treatment in different spheres. It has also been recognized that unfair exclusion or inclusion results in low access to income-earning assets, employment, social needs like education, health services, food, and housing; unequal access to civil, religious, cultural, and political rights; and unequal participation in governance, which ultimately cause high poverty and low human development among the excluded groups. This paper thus highlights the issues faced by the deprived among the deprived group, i.e., the women belonging to scheduled castes.