Tag: R Velayudhan

• 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 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 ›