Caste Disabilities Removal Act, 1850

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THE CASTE DISABILITIES REMOVAL ACT, 1850 
 
 
 
CONTENTS 
 
1.  Law or usage which inflicts forfeiture of, effects, rights on change of religion or loss of caste 
to cease to be enforced 
  

 
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1[THE CASTE DISABILITIES REMOVAL ACT, 1850] 
ACT No. XXI OF 1850 
[11th April, 1850] 
An Act for extending the principle of section 9, Regulation VII, 1832, of the Bengal Code throughout 
the Territories subject to the Government of the East India Company. 
 WHEREAS it is enacted by section 9, Regulation VII, 1832, of the Bengal Code2, that 
“whenever in any civil suit the parties to such suit may be of different persuasions, when one party 
shall be of the Hindu and the other of the Muhammadan persuasion, or where one or more of the 
parties to the suit shall not be either of the Mu hammadan or Hindu persuasions, the laws of those 
religions shall not be permitted to operate to deprive such party or parties of any property to which, 
but for the operation of such laws, they would have been entitled; and whereas it will be bene ficial to 
extend the principle of that enactment throughout the territories subject to the Government of the 
East India Company; It is enacted as follows:- 
 1. Law or usage which inflicts forfeiture of, effects, rights on change of religion or loss of 
caste to ce ase to be enforced.  So much of any law or usage now in force within the territories 
subject to the Government of the East India Company as inflicts on any person forfeiture of rights or 
property, or may be held in any way to impair or affect any right of i nheritance, by reason of his or 
her renouncing, or having been excluded from the communion of, any religion, or being deprived of 
caste, shall cease to be enforced as law in the Courts of the East India Company, and in the Courts 
established by Royal Charter within the said territories. 
 
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Date: 13-09-2024 
1Short title given by the Short Titles Act, 1897 (14 of 1897). 
 This Act has been declared to be in force in all the Provinces and the Capital of the Federation, except the Scheduled Distri cts, by the Laws 
Local Extent Act, 1874 (15 of 1874), s. 3. 
 It has been declared, by notification under s. 3 (a) of Act 14 of 1874, to be in force in the following Scheduled Districts, namely :- 
Sind . . . . .. See Gazette of India, 1880, Pt. I, p. 672. 
 The District of Peshawar, Hazara, Kohat, Bannu, Dera IsmaiI Khan and Dera Ghazi Khan, [Portions of the Districts of Hazara, Bannu, Dera 
Ismail Khan and Dera Ghazi Khan and the Districts of Peshawar and Kohat, now form the N.W.F.P. See Gazette of India, 1901, Pt. I, p. 857, and ibid., 
1902, Pt. I, p. 575]. 
 Applied to Phulera in the Excluded Area of Upper Tanawal to the extent the Act is applicable in the N.W.F.P., subject to cert ain 
modifications, and extended to the Excluded Area of Upper Tanawal (N. W.F.P .) other than Phu lera with effect from such date and subject to such 
modifications as may be notified__See N.W.F.P. (Upper Tanawal) (Excluded Area) Laws Regulation, 1950. 
 This Act has been amended in its application to the Province of West Pakistan by th e Caste Disabilities Removal (West Pakistan 
Amendment) Act,1963(W. Pak. Act 10 0f 1963), s.2 (with effect from the 12th July, 1963). 
2Rep. by the Bengal Civil Courts Act, 1871 (6 of 1871), which was rep. by the Bengal North -Western Provinces and Assam Civil Courts Act, 1887 (12 
of 1887).