Padma Shri awardee Ganesh Devy cut through the jargon to expose how British-era laws shape modern India during the 7th annual lecture of the Vidhi Centre of Legal Policy at Delhi’s IIC.
Project lays out 11 interventions for holistic development of 75 PVTGs in 18 states & UTs, comes ahead of polls in Telangana, Rajasthan, MP & Chhattisgarh which have vulnerable tribes.
The British administration marked out entire communities as ‘criminal’ through Criminal Tribes Act. And the policemen helped form guidelines to identify those communities.
When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
Before British, the areas dominated by tribals were theirs. They had their autonomy in those space where they lived. But when the British came they formalized the administrative system and brought every land to the purview of taxation. The caste based society adopted their format of ruling and started to do what British were doing, exploiting resource. Angrezon ghar chhina aur caste based society pura kapda chhine ki kosis Kar raha hei.
Before British, the areas dominated by tribals were theirs. They had their autonomy in those space where they lived. But when the British came they formalized the administrative system and brought every land to the purview of taxation. The caste based society adopted their format of ruling and started to do what British were doing, exploiting resource. Angrezon ghar chhina aur caste based society pura kapda chhine ki kosis Kar raha hei.