ANALYSIS OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN INDIA

Authors

  • Umang Singhal

Keywords:

Constitutional Rights; Indigenous People; India; Socio-Economic Factor; Scheduled Tribes

Abstract

Entitlement, privilege, birth right, liberty, permission are just some synonym for the word Right. Rights are just the liberty or entitlement given to people by authority of law. But many times some peril section of society needs some more rights than reasonable person are entitled to. Indigenous people are those peril section of the society which needs rights in order to protect them from the long undertaken discrimination done to them from colonial period. Indigenous people are provided various rights under constitution of India and also special provision are formed in order to uplift them from their current situation. What are
those rights entitled to them? Are they implemented to their best extent? The author has tried to analyse these question taking in consideration rights granted to Indigenous people and what is the ground reality. The author has gone through various statutory enactment, reviews, report and surveys of various ministries having numerous factors in order to draw an analysis regarding rights of indigenous people.

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Published

2022-12-15

How to Cite

Singhal, U. . (2022). ANALYSIS OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN INDIA. Journal of Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence, 5(2). Retrieved from https://lawjournals.celnet.in/index.php/Jolj/article/view/1093

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The Constitutional Jurisprudence: Concept, influence

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