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100			_aRobinson,Rowena
245			_aMinority rights versus caste claims : Indian Christians and predicaments of law
260			_c2014
300			_ap.82-91.
362			_a5 Apr
520			_aDalit 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.
650			_aChristians
650			_aCaste
650			_aMinority groups
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
908			_aN
909			_a103494
999			_c103490 _d103490