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Confronting Marginalisation
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?
The Act guarantees Adivasis not to be dispossessed from their traditional homelands.
The land belonging to Adivasis cannot be sold to or bought by non-tribal people. In cases where this has happened, the Constitution guarantees the right of tribal people to re-possess their land.
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Rathnam refused to perform the ritual because
C.K. Janu is
The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act came into being in the year
Who cannot avail reservations?
There are specific ________ and ________ for the marginalised in our country.
Rathnam filed a case in the local police station under the ________________.
Manual scavengers are exposed to ____________ conditions of work and face serious hazards.
The job of manual scavenging is mainly done by __________ women and young girls.
The government provides for free or __________ hostels for students of Dalit and Adivasi communities.
Rathnam with the support of other Dalit families resisted the powerful castes.
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