Denial of Justice Enshrined in the Constitution to Indian Tribal Community

Abstract

At the midnight stroke of August 15, 1947 India had its tryst with destiny. A new dawn of justice was expected to rise bringing with itself freedom, equality, civil liberties and political rights simultaneously. The whole lot of masses that had hitherto been considered subjects was sold a dream of becoming equal citizens of a newly independent, civic, secular nation state. Injustice, inequality and suppression were expected to be buried along the dead-colonial rule. It was the evils of subordination, exploitation and marginalization of whole masses, especially the downtrodden or in other words the Dalits and the Tribals against which the fight for independence was fought. Victory in this battle was to put an end not only to iniquitous and impious British Raj but also equally abominable rigid hierarchical structure of stagnant Indian society.