01471pab a2200193 454500 180718b2014 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Robinson,Rowena Minority rights versus caste claims : Indian Christians and predicaments of law 2014 p.82-91. 5 Apr Dalit Christians have been agitating for scheduled caste status that will bring them on par with Hindu, Sikh, and Buddhist dalits. Why was this claim not made when the Constitution was being framed? An exploration of the Constituent Assembly debates attempts to understand whether Christian castes were discussed and how fundamental religious liberties, which included crucial educational rights, were given importance over caste claims by the elite Christian representatives in the assembly. It draws a distinction between community rights and claims on the state. The implications of the cluster of rights known as "minority rights" are disentangled and the paper argues that the discriminatory clause in the ScheduledCastes Order of 1950 is part of the problem faced by dalit Christians. There is also a clash between the different kinds of entitlements at issue, which must be acknowledged to harmonise the justice of the state with fairness within the community. - Reproduced. Christians Caste Minority groups Economic and Political Weekly N 103494 103490 103490 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 49, Issue no: 14 AR103954 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR