The Indian Constitution makes special provision for "scheduled castes," "scheduled tribes" and "backward classes."
The Indian Constitution makes special provision for scheduled tribes. These include over 250 ethnic communities in India before the Aryan and Dravidian arrivals.
You may encounter the term adivasi/adivasis being used by indigenous peoples themselves and related rights movements in preference to the constitutional term scheduled tribes.
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Indigenous peoples -- India -- Legal status, laws, etc
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Reverse discrimination -- Law and legislation -- India
Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- India
Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- India
Constitutional law -- Economic aspects -- India
Human rights -- India
Social justice -- India
Equality before the law -- India
Reclaiming Indigeneity and Democracy in India's Jharkhand by Note: SOLO searches will probably reveal that other parts of the Bodleian have relevant material. Please ask a member of the Law Library staff if you are not sure how to visit another Reading Room or request a book from the Closed Stacks.
The Indian Constitution makes special provision for scheduled castes.
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Dalits -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- India
Dalits -- India -- Social conditions
Dalits -- India -- Economic conditions
Dalits -- Violence against -- India
Reverse discrimination -- Law and legislation -- India
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Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- India
Constitutional law -- Economic aspects -- India
Human rights -- India
Social justice -- India
Equality before the law -- India
Marginality, Social India
Social isolation -- India
Dynamics of Caste and Law : Dalits, oppression and constitutional democracy in India by Note: SOLO searches will probably reveal that other parts of the Bodleian have relevant material. Please ask a member of the Law Library staff if you are not sure how to visit another Reading Room or request a book from the Closed Stacks.
The Indian Constitution made special provision for other backward classes, but did not provide a definition.
The 103rd Amendment to the Constitution 2019 introduced the category economically weaker sections (EWS) "Explanation.—For the purposes of this article and article 16, "economically weaker sections" shall be such as may be notified by the State from time to time on the basis of family income and other indicators of economic disadvantage.’
Reverse discrimination -- Law and legislation -- India
Affirmative action programs -- Law and legislation -- India
Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- India
Constitutional law -- Economic aspects -- India
Affirmative action for economically weaker sections and upper-castes in Indian constitutional law : context, judicial discourse, and critique by