Tag: B.N. Datar

• Protection of Civil Rights Act: Part 1

  Feb 13

  Between 1955 and 1976 activist organisations and MPs push for committed implementation of the UOA while demanding an amednment act. The Elayaperumal Committee report recommends sweeping legal reforms. MPs in… more ›

• Untouchability (Offences) Act, 1955: Part 4 Committment, Implementation, and Resources

  Feb 4

  Parliamentarians debating the UOA expressed deep distrust about whether the government would be interested in or able to end untouchability. They argued that the police and administrative machinery were complicit… more ›

• Untouchability (Offences) Act 1955: Part 3 Civil Rights or Criminal law?

  Feb 4

  Parliamentarians disagreed with each other about whether the UOA would be sufficient or necessary to realise equal civil rights for Dalit citizens. They expressed dissent with a simple penal approach… more ›

• Untouchability (Offences) Act 1955 :Part 2 Defining Untouchability, Religion, Legal Design, and Rurality

  Feb 4

  Members of Parliament disagreed with each other on how to define untouchability and whether untouchability was solely a rural problem when discussing the Untouchability Offences Act 1955 more ›

• The Untouchability (Offences) Act 1955 Part 1

  Feb 4

  Between 1949 and 1954 Dalit parliamentarians consistently spoke in parliament nudging and shaming the government into making an untouchability law more ›