Reservation in perspective

Reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes have been a very important element of the public policy of India since its independence. While it took more than a century of democratic politics and social churning for countries in the West to recognise the critical value of state intervention in the form of affirmative action in favour of historically marginalised groups and categories of the population, this country’s leadership had the vision to integrate it into the Indian Constitution at the moment of its drafting.

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