TextBook Solutions for Punjab School Education Board Class 8 Social Science Social And Political Life Chapter 8 Confronting Marginalisation

List two Fundamental Rights in the Constitution that Dalits can draw upon to insist that they be treated with dignity and as equals. Re-read the Fundamental Rights listed on page 14 of the textbook to help you answer this question.

Re-read the story on Rathnam as well as the provisions of the 1989 Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Now list one reason why you think he used this law to file a complaint.

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?

Which Article of the Constitution states that untouchability has been abolished?

• Article 15

• Article 17

• Article 21

• Article 27

Rathnam refused to perform the ritual because

• He had become a big politician

• He had become a lawyer

• He had no faith in this practice

• He hated the priests

C.K. Janu is

• An engineer

• A doctor

• An archaeologist

• An activist

The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act came into being in the year

• 1980

• 1985

• 1989

• 1991

Who cannot avail reservations?

• Brahmans

• Dalits

• Adivasis

• Backward and most backward castes

There are specific ________ and ________ for the marginalised in our country.

Rathnam filed a case in the local police station under the ________________.