By David Keane
Proposing an research of the removal of racial discrimination in foreign legislations, this publication assesses the circulate opposed to racial discrimination, which has ruled human rights discourse because the UN's inception. It evaluates the concepts that experience knowledgeable the paintings of the UN treaty-based and charter-based our bodies during this quarter, and maps a brand new course that strikes from standard-setting to implementation. in the course of the lens of the Hindu caste procedure, the publication seeks to supply a benchmark at the achievements of the overseas group in combatting all types of racial discrimination, and the rules that needs to tell destiny measures. The e-book could be of curiosity to lecturers, researchers and policy-makers operating within the parts of overseas human rights and legislations.
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The first is the religious history of caste, which traces the original Hindu texts, the Vedas, which expounded the fourfold division of the castes. The second 1 Ketkar, S. (1909), History of Caste in India (New Delhi: Low Price Publications), 18. 2 Ambedkar, B. R. Ambedkar (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 252. 3 Ambedkar, B. , 288. 24 Caste-based Discrimination in International Human Rights Law section outlines the sociological theory that has sought to give a definite shape to caste. It will assess early descriptions of caste to later structuralist attempts to explain the system in terms of binary oppositions, notably that of purity and pollution, as well as the doctrine of karma which supports the maintenance of caste divisions even among the lowest groupings.
The chapter researches the Constituent Assembly debates of India, which took place from 1947–49, to provide the meaning behind these provisions. The debates are in stages, beginning with the Interim Report of the Advisory Committee on Fundamental Rights. They reveal the impetus behind, for example, the ban on untouchability. While some Assembly members expressed relief that this practice was finally illegal, there was also satisfaction that India would no longer be condemned in the eyes of the international community for its caste system and treatment of the Untouchables.
Ambedkar’s writings criticising the Indian National Congress and its contribution to the social decimation of the lowest caste groupings are still very much relevant, as is the story of the caste struggle in India in the 1920s, 30s and 40s. 64 There is a large number of Dalit human rights organisations whose websites offer ample evidence of the extent of caste-based discrimination in contemporary India. org>. org>. org>. org>. Introduction 15 Chapter 2: The Origin of Race This is a critical treatment of the development of the notion of race, and the consequences of attributing to peoples arbitrary classifications that have no basis in biology or any other science.