Law and Development of Socially Marginalised: A study of perpetual domestication in the case of Dalit Women
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National Human RightsAbstract
This paper is an attempt to analyse the atrocities on Dalit women in India in general and one state Rajasthan in particular and contextualize the same to its actual social consequences. This is also highly important to assess social situation after the seven decades of country's independence. This paper focuses on the changing patterns and forms of atrocities committed on Dalit women in the contemporary socio-political situation in India and particularly in Rajasthan in spite of Constitutional guarantees, Laws, Acts and Rules made for the protection of women.
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