Land ToThe Dalits

Abstract

The ownership of agricultural land determines the social status of a person or a community in a rural agrarian society. The high incidence of landlessness amongst Dalits is a consequence of historic injustice. This article is a comparative constitutional law study. It argues for the insertion of an enabling constitutional provision under Part III (Fundamental rights) of the Constitution of India for the redistribution of land to Dalits along the lines of a similar provision that exists in the Constitution of Nepal (2015).