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Scheduled caste, article 341 makes it clear that a 'Scheduled Caste' need not be a 'caste' in the conventional sense and, therefore, may not be a caste within the meaning of Article 15(2) or 16(2). Scheduled Castes become such only if the President specifies any castes, races or tribes or parts or groups within castes, races or tribes for the purpose of the Constitution. So, a group or a s. of a group, which need not be a caste and may even be a hotchpotch of many castes or tribes or even races, may still be a Scheduled Caste under Article 341. Likewise, races or tribal communities or parts thereof or part or parts of groups within them may still be Scheduled Tribes (Article 342) for the purpose of the Constitution. Under this definition, one group in a caste may be a Scheduled Caste and another from the same caste may not be. It is the socio-economic backwardness of a social bracket, not mere birth in a caste, that is decisive. Conceptual errors creep in when traditional obsessions ob...
Cast iron
Cast iron, 'Cast iron' is defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary as 'a hard alloy of iron, carbon and silicon cast in a mould'. According to New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of English Language, the word 'cast iron' means 'an iron-carbon alloy produced in a blast furnace. It contains up to 4% carbon, and is more brittle, but more easily fused, than steel'. According to Van Nostrand's scientific Encyclopedia, 'cast iron' is 'primarily the product of remelting and casting pig iron'. (Interestingly, the expression 'cast-iron' - with a hyphen between 'cast' and 'iron' - has been defined separately as meaning 'made of cast iron', Bengal Iron Corpn. v. CTO, 1994 Supp (1) SCC 310: AIR 1993 SC 2414 (2417). [A.P. General Sales Tax Act, (6 of 1957)]Cast iron casting in its basic or rough form just be held to be 'cast iron'. But, if thereafter any machining or polishing or any other process is done to the rough cast iron casting to produce things like pipes, manhole covers or bends, these canno...
Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes
Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes, it is an accepted fact that members of the Scheduled Castes and Tribes are by the large backward in comparison with other communities in the country. This is the result of historical cause, T. Devadasan v. Union of India, AIR 1964 SC 179: (1964) 4 SCR 680.(ii) Scheduled castes and scheduled tribes are not a caste within the ordinary meaning of caste. Scheduled Castes and tribes are descriptive of backwardness. It is the aim of our Constitution to bring them up from handicapped position to improvement. No Court can come to a finding that any cast or any tribe is a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled tribes. Scheduled Caste is a caste as notified under Article 366(25), State of Kerala v. N.M. Thomas, AIR 1976 SC 490: (1976) 2 SCC 310: (1976) 1 SCR 906.Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the clauses (24) and (25) of Art. 366 of the Constitution of India; Maharashtra State Public Services (Reservati...
Caste
Caste, Since a caste is a social combination of persons governed by its rules and regulations, it may, if its rules and regulations so provide, admit a new member just as it may expel an existing member. The rules and regulations of the caste may not have been formalised: they may not exist in black and white: they may consist only of practices and usages, C.M. Arumugam v. S. Rajgopal, (1976) 1 SCC 863: (1976) 3 SCR 82: AIR 1976 SC 939 (948). [Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950]A caste is a horizontal segmental division of society spread over a district or a region or the whole State and also sometimes outside it. Homo Hierarchicus is expected to be the central and substantive element of the caste system which differentiates it from other social systems. The concept of purity and impurity conceptualises the caste system. There are four essential features of the caste system which maintained its homo hierarchicus character: (1) hierarchy; (2) commensality; (3) restrictions on m...
Castes or Tribes
Castes or Tribes, The words 'castes' or 'tribes' in the expression 'Scheduled Castes' and 'Scheduled Tribes' are not used in the ordinary sense of the terms but are used in the sense of the definitions contained in Articles 366(24) and 366(25). In this view, a caste is a Scheduled Caste or a tribe is a Scheduled Tribe only if they are included in the President's Orders issued under Articles 341 and 342 for the purpose of the Constitution. Exercising the powers vested in him, the President has issued the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950 and the Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950. Subsequently, some orders were issued under the said articles in relation to Union Territories and other States and there have been certain amendments in relation to Orders issued, by amendment Acts passed by Parliament, State of Maharashtra v. Milind, AIR 2001 SC 393 (399)....
Casting vote
Casting vote, the vote given by the chairman or president of a deliberative assembly when the suffrages of the meeting are equal. The chairman, though not disqualified by law from voting, Nell v. Longbottom, 1894 (1) QB 767, is usually not entitled to vote in the first instance.The Speaker of the House of Commons (though he was no vote in the first instance) has a casting vote, and by the practice of the House gives it in favour of a motion or bill, so as to give opportunity for further consideration. So has the mayor or other chairman at a meeting of a town council (English) (Municipal Corporations Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 50), s. 22, and Sched. II., r. 11), and the Chairman of a (English) Country Council (Local) Government Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 41), s. 75), and the chairman of a parish meeting, or Parish Council (Local Government Act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), Sched. I., Pt. 2, r. 8, and Pt. 3, r. 10). These Acts have been replaced, except in regard to London, by the Local...
Mitis casting
A process invented by P Ostberg for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought iron to which from 005 to 01 per cent of aluminum is added to lower the melting point usually in a petroleum furnace keeping the molten metal at the bubbling point until it becomes quiet and then pouring the molten metal into a mold lined with a special mixture consisting essentially of molasses and ground burnt fire clay also a casting made by this process called also wrought iron casting...
Cast off
Cast or laid aside thrown away discarded as cast off clothes...
Castes
Castes, the Presidential Orders are issued under Articles 341 and 342 of the Constitution recognising and identifying the needy and deserving people belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes mentioned therein for the Constitution purpose of availing benefits or reservation in the matters of admissions and employment. State of Maharashtra v. Milind, (2001) 1 SCC 4....
National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, means the National Commission for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes referred to in Article 338 of the Constitution. [Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 (10 of 1994) s. 2 (1) (i)]...
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