Tag: criminal law

• 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 ›

• 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 ›