Author: Aishwarya Karan
Aishwarya Karan
Author is a PhD scholar at Faculty of Law, University of Delhi undertaking research on 'A socio-legal inquiry into the interface between manual scavenging and law'. Her research areas include right to shelter, right against evictions, politics of sanitation, human rights and constitutionalism
In a civilized society, there is no place for a dehumanizing practice like manual scavenging borne out of a caste-based enslavement. However, the civility of Indian society may be measured by how long it took from judicial cognizance of the practice in early 1920s to when it was statutorily criminalized in 1993.