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Earn 100

Why did the Safai Karamchari Andolan file a PIL in 2003? What did they complain about in their petition?

Important Questions on Confronting Marginalisation

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SOCIAL SCIENCE Social and Political Life–III TEXTBOOK FOR CLASS VIII>Chapter 8 - Confronting Marginalisation>Exercise 4
What did the Supreme Court do on hearing their (Safai Karamchari Andolan) case in 2005?
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SOCIAL SCIENCE Social and Political Life–III TEXTBOOK FOR CLASS VIII>Chapter 8 - Confronting Marginalisation>Exercises>Q 1

List two Fundamental Rights in the Constitution that Dalits can draw upon to insist that they be treated with dignity and as equals.

 

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SOCIAL SCIENCE Social and Political Life–III TEXTBOOK FOR CLASS VIII>Chapter 8 - Confronting Marginalisation>Exercises>Q 2
Re-read the story on Rathnam as well as the provisions of the 1989 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. List one reason why you think he used this law to file a complaint.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE Social and Political Life–III TEXTBOOK FOR CLASS VIII>Chapter 8 - Confronting Marginalisation>Exercises>Q 3
Why do Adivasi activists, including C.K. Janu, believe that Adivasis can also use this 1989 Act to fight against dispossession? Is there anything specific in the provisions of the Act that allows her to believe this?