Dalits can 'invoke' or 'draw on' a Fundamental Right (or Rights) in situations where they feel that they have been treated badly by some individual or community, or even by the government. They can draw the attention of the government of India to the Constitutional provisions, demanding that the government abides by them and do justice to them.

The Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes Act 1989 states that the actions that deprive the Dalits and Adivasis of their small resources or which force them into slaved labour are punishable. It means that if someone tries to occupy or cultivate any land owned by or allotted to a member of Schedule Caste or Tribe, he will be punished by law.

The minorities like Parsi, Muslims, Sikhs, etc. use the Fundamental Rights to secure themselves. They become the guardian of their cultural content and to preserve it in the best way. The Constitution of India guarantees the cultural justice to cultural, religious or linguistic minorities. The Constitution makes sure that no majority community will dominate or eliminate them. The Constitution provides them the freedom to practice their religion.

The dalits are enlightened about their rights and they utilize the Fundamental Rights if they are discriminated by the individual, community or by the government. Now, they have drawn the attention of the government of India to follow the Constitution and to ensure justice for them.

Reservation is securing of seats bylaws in education and government employment for the deprived and unprivileged classes and people.

According to Kabir, untouchability was the highest state of knowledge, i.e. not touched by narrow limiting ideas, so he changed a lower concept to the highest one.

The court had directed the departments of central and state government to verify the condition of manual scavenging and to introduce time-bound programme for their liberation and rehabilitation.

The government made various laws to protect marginalised citizens. There are some specific laws and policies for the marginalized groups in our country. There are policies or schemes that emerge through other means like setting up a committee or by undertaking a survey, etc. The government also makes efforts to promote such policies.

The Act lists actions that dispossess Dalits and Adivasis of their meagre resources or which force them into performing labour of slavery. In cases where this has happened, the Constitution guarantees the right of tribal people to repossess their land.
It is because of these provisions that Adivasi activists believe that Adivasis can also use this 1989 Act to fight against dispossession.

It refers to the practice of removing human and animal waste/excreta using brooms, tin plates and baskets from dry latrines and carrying it on the head to tlie disposal grounds.

Morally reprehensible is used to describe any act which violates all norms of decency and dignity and goes against the values that a society has accepted.

The Dalit families were afraid of angering the powerful castes because they depended on them for their livelihood.

Yes, the force put on Rathnam to perform this ritual violates his Fundamental Rights.

Governments across India have their own list of Scheduled Castes (or Dalits), Scheduled Tribes and backward and most backward castes. The Central Government too has its list. Students applying to educational institutions and those applying for posts in government are expected to furnish proof of their caste or tribe status, in the form of caste and tribe certificates.