{"id":36006,"date":"2018-11-01T13:04:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36006"},"modified":"2018-11-01T13:04:04","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:34:04","slug":"the-boycott-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-boycott-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"The boycott ban:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/the-boycott-ban\/article19338908.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The boycott ban<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Maharashtra\u2019s law makes a bench mark<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Context:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Maharashtra\u2019s new law prohibiting the social boycott of individuals, families or any community by informal village councils is a step in the right direction.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Maharashtra Protection of People from Social Boycott (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2016<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Objectives:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The state\u2019s legislation targets the pernicious practice of informal caste panchayats or dominant sections using ostracism as a means of enforcing social conformity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The practices the law prohibits range from preventing the performance of a social or religious custom, denial of the right to perform funerals or marriages, cutting off someone\u2019s social or commercial ties to preventing access to educational or medical institutions or community halls and public facilities, or any form of social ostracism on any ground.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The law recognises the human rights dimension to issues of social boycott, as well as the varied forms in which it occurs in a caste-based society.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Its progressive sweep takes into account discrimination on the basis of morality, social acceptance, political inclination, sexuality, which it prohibits.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">It even makes it an offence to create cultural obstacles by forcing people to wear a particular type of clothing or use a particular language.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>The need for the law:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to the new law,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bombay enacted a law against excommunication in 1949, but it was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1962. But one hopes the latest Act will not be vulnerable to legal challenge.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Members of various castes and communities require protection from informal village councils and gatherings of elders who draw on their own notions of conformity, community discipline, morality and social mores to issue orders to the village or the community to cut off ties with supposedly offending persons and families. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Conclusion:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The Act serves as a template for similar legislation in other States.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boycott ban: Maharashtra\u2019s law makes a bench mark Context: Maharashtra\u2019s new law prohibiting the social boycott of individuals, families or any community by informal village councils is a step in the right direction. The Maharashtra Protection of People from Social Boycott (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2016 Objectives: The state\u2019s legislation targets the pernicious&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-boycott-ban\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The boycott ban:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704544643},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}