Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Orders (Amendment) Act, 1956

The petitioners, members of the Adi‑Dravida caste who had converted to Christianity, were denied free bunks under a central welfare scheme for Scheduled Castes because a Tamil Nadu order incorporated paragraph 3 of the Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order, 1950, which excludes persons of religions other than Hinduism …

The Bombay High Court entertained four writ petitions filed by members of the Gowari community seeking declaration that they belong to the Scheduled Tribe (ST) ‘Gond Gowari’ and quashed the ST certificates issued to them. The High Court held that the tribe ‘Gond Gowari’ was extinct before 1911 and that the caste ‘Gowar…

The State of Bihar issued a resolution on 1 July 2015, based on the State Backward Commission’s recommendation, to delete the "Tanti‑Tantwa" caste from the Extremely Backward Classes list and merge it with the "Pan/Sawasi" entry in the Scheduled Castes list, thereby extending Scheduled Caste benefits to its members. Th…