Arrange the following state initiatives (in context to when they were introduced) to address caste and tribe discrimination in a chronological order.
A. Government of India Act
B. Caste Disabilities Removal Act
C. Ninety Third Amendment
D. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → B, A, D, C
(B) Caste Disabilities Removal Act — 1850.
(A) Government of India Act — 1935.
(D) Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act — 1989.
(C) Ninety Third Amendment — 2005 (it became law on 23rd January 2006).
NCERT (2025-26): “State and Non-State Initiatives Addressing Caste and Tribe Discrimination … In addition to reservations, there have been a number of laws passed to end, prohibit and punish caste discrimination, specially untouchability. One of the earliest such laws was the Caste Disabilities Removal Act of 1850, which disallowed the curtailment of rights of citizens due solely to change of religion or caste. The most recent such law was the Constitution Amendment (Ninety Third Amendment) Act of 2005, which became law on 23rd January 2006. Coincidentally, both the 1850 law and the 2006 amendment related to education. The 93rd Amendment is for introducing reservation for the Other Backward Classes in institutions of higher education, while the 1850 Act was used to allow entry of Dalits to government schools. In between, there have been numerous laws, of which the important ones are, of course, the Constitution of India itself, passed in 1950; and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act of 1989.…” “Colonialism and Caste … The administration also took an interest in the welfare of downtrodden castes, referred to as the ‘depressed classes’ at that time. It was as part of these efforts that the Government of India Act of 1935 was passed which gave legal recognition to the lists or ‘schedules’ of castes and tribes marked out for special treatment by the state. This is how the terms ‘Scheduled Tribes’ and the ‘Scheduled Castes’ came into being.…” |