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India's constitutional-rights settlement, 1946–1950

The Constituent Assembly period in which independent India framed equality and other fundamental rights in a democratic-republican constitution.

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Boundary: Constitutional drafting, adoption, and commencement from 1946 through 1950; not a claim that formal rights eliminated social or colonial inequalities.
Why this case: The settlement tests how liberal rights language was specified in a postcolonial constitution without treating India as an embodiment of liberalism.
Indian constitutional-rights drafting and commencement 1946–1950

Articles 14 and 15 in their constitutional settlement context; not their full later judicial or practical history.

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Article 14 of India's Constitution guarantees equality before the law and equal protection of the laws within India.

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Article 15(1) prohibits the state from discriminating against a citizen only on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex, or place of birth.

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Article 15(3) of India's Constitution permits the state to make special provisions for women and children.

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