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caste-429	Wankhede, Asang; Kahle, Alena	The Human Dignity Argument against Manual Scavenging in India	2023	21	.pdf	application/pdf	9908	421	42	Indeed, especially practitioners have commended that the Act sees manual scavenging as a social justice rather than sanitation issue, that “it recognizes a constitutional obligation to correct the historical injustice and indignity suffered by manual scavenging communities by providing alternate livelihoods and other assistance” (Human Rights Watch, 2014, p. 5), and that it “explicitly adopts an understanding that manual scavenging is [...] against the spirit and essence of the Constitution of India” (Koonan, 2021, p. 157). In this article, we argue that manual scavenging and the 2013 Act which prohibits it are unconstitutional as they violate human dignity, the prohibition against untouchability, and the right to life enshrined in the Constitution of India.	cache/caste-429.pdf	txt/caste-429.txt