http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20200612-013746-0 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/from-legal-fiction-to-reality-securing-the-dignity-of-indias-manual-scavengers/ From Legal Fiction to Reality: Securing the Dignity of India’s Manual Scavengers Jaiswal, Kartikeya Modi, Pranay eng 2020-06-11 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Constitutional Law Human Dignity supreme court Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Manual scavenging is one of the most inhumane and abhorrent sanitation practices prevalent in modern India: broadly, it means deploying individuals to manually clean up drainage systems. ‘Manual scavengers’ (unfortunately, for the lack of a better term) have been denied their humanitarian due for centuries in the Indian sub-continent and their constitutional due for 70 years in the Republic of India – it is high time the Law dismantles the structure that perpetuates their oppression.