Constitutional Safeguards And Their Usages: A Study of Santal Tribes Of Balasore District In Odisha

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10.2991/978-2-38476-192-0_13How to use a DOI?

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Constitutional Safeguards; Social Justice; Human Rights

Abstract

The largest tribal community in the Indian subcontinent is Santal. They found in Odisha, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Assam and Bihar and also Bangladesh and Nepal. For their overall development and protection our constitution has provided constitutional safeguards. The Tribal people are more disadvantage section of the society, therefore there is necessity to take affirmative action’s by the government of their up-liftment of livelihood, human rights, and welfare of the deprived people. Why the tribal people need special protection and rights? The answer is they still lagging behind in the human progress, till today they are not assured about their legal rights over their traditional properties, their life are very despondent due to not the proper rehabilitation after the displacement for developmental projects; industrialisation has also heavily impact on their land which was intrude for development purpose. In the constitutional frame work Schedule Tribe has described under article 366(25) of Indian Constitution that Schedule tribes or tribal communities are those who are described in the article of 342 for the purpose of the constitution. According to the article 342, after the public notification and the consultation of Governor of that state; President can declare any tribe or tribal community as group or part of the tribes or tribal communities. Article 342(1) talked about through the Act of Parliament the order of the notification of the President under article 342, may include or exclude from the list of Schedule tribes. The 89th Amendment Act in 2003, the new article 338A was inserted in Indian Constitution. This paper tries to find out the usages of constitutional safeguards by Santal tribes of Balasore District in Odisha.

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AU  - Geetanjali Patra
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/12/31
TI  - Constitutional Safeguards And Their Usages: A Study of Santal Tribes Of Balasore District In Odisha
BT  - Proceedings of the World Anthropology Congress, 2023 (WAC 2023)
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