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“In exercising its exclusive power, the Parliament additionally enacted the Untouchability (Offences) Act in 1955.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2008
  • Caste and Ethnicity after 1947

The statement points to a specific constitutional design choice: untouchability was not left as a moral abolition alone but was converted into a justiciable, centrally-legislated criminal wrong.

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  • Article 17 and the Constitutional Mandate
  • Why "Exclusive Power": Article 35 and Centralisation of Enforcement
  • The Untouchability (Offences) Act, 1955: Provisions and Design
  • Limitations Exposed in Practice
  • From the 1955 Act to the Protection of Civil Rights Act, 1976

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