Still mired in caste politics

The exceptional minds who participated in the debates that preceded the final design of the Indian Constitution were amply aware of the challenge of building a unified nation on the base of a fractured social system. What has been happening in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the assembly elections shows that issues such as caste, religion and ethnicity continue to dominate our political system; in fact, their power has increased since the early years after independence.

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