Tag: Economic Exploitation

• Protection of Civil Rights Act: Part 2 Emergency Law Making

  Feb 13

  The PCRA is discussed and passed during the 1975 National Emergency. Despite the opposition being in jail, members of parliament discuss the economic class struggle underlying the fight against untouchability,their… 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 ›