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Caste-based reservations are a major component of what political scientist Christophe Jaffrelot calls “India’s silent revolution”: the fact that Indian democracy has made space for lower castes after millennia of oppression.
Given the scale of change they promise, it is hardly surprising that quotas for members of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes have always been bitterly contested. The latest iteration of this dispute is a group called the Reservation Hatao Andolan or Movement to Remove Reservations. In August, its followers held protests in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar protest site.
Some critics claim that the group was a tactical way to undercut the youth solidarity that had led to the removal of a Union minister only weeks before. Indeed, while the earlier so-called cockroach protests identified the government as being responsible for the lack of employment, the Reservation Hatao Andolan tried to shift the focus to quotas. The protesters claimed that upper castes were not getting jobs since the pie for them...
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