A Division Bench led by Chief Justice Sushrut Arvind Dharmadhikari has given the State four weeks to report which caste appellations on streets, roads and localities have been removed, and which still remain, nearly five decades after a 1978 order first demanded it.
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Periyar left the Congress in 1925 and led a movement that asked for more than jobs and seats. For a decade it worked alongside the Justice Party, and in the end it took the party over.
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The first Justice government issued the first communal Government Order, making an elected body the first in Indian legislative history to provide for reservation. It also exposed who the new system left out.
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The first Justice government made voter qualifications gender-neutral, among the earliest such moves in British India. Five years later Dr Muthulakshmi Reddi entered the Legislative Council.
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