Tag: L.M. Shrikant

• 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 ›

• 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 ›