Reservation

Redesigning Reservations: How Heterogeneous are the Scheduled Castes?

The Supreme Court’s concern about unequal access to reservations within beneficiary groups is valid. However, the court and executive should prioritise an evidence-based approach, using data to…
▶07-Oct-2024
Ashwini Deshpande, Rajesh Ramachandran

Women’s Reservation Act and its Unsettled Details

The 2023 Women Power Reservation Act links reservation of seats to delimitation, which can be done only after a census is carried out. It also doesn't have a quota for the OBCs and will have to…
▶05-Dec-2023
Rashmi Singh

Great Expectations: Can the New Quota for Women Change Representative Politics in India?

The process of passing the Women’s Reservation Bill last September underlined how little the substantive process mattered to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Government. Political parties, civil…
▶05-Dec-2023
Mouli Banerjee, Shirin M. Rai
Book
Book Review

Pasmandas and the Dalit Movement

The Pasmanda movement sees solidarity amongst the backward and ‘untouchable’ castes across all religions as an antidote to communal polarisation.
▶26-Jun-2023
Arshad Amanullah

A Letter to Justice Bela Trivedi from an ‘Untouchable’ Ex-colleague

‘The facts you are aware of are based on the echo chambers in which judges who are mainly from privileged castes/communities interact with each other. They are also based on the defensive silence of…
▶22-Nov-2022
Rajesh Chavda

Implications of the RTE Experience for EWS Quotas

The belief that goals can be independent of the means to pursue them assumes an all-powerful state capacity. The reality is that all policies entail implementation costs, and those targeting the…
▶12-Oct-2022
Ankur Sarin, Bhargav B.S.

Subverting Reservations in Karnataka

The unusual sight of Karnataka's influential swamis at the forefront of protests to tweak reservation quotas portends the end of reservations as a constitutional means for social justice, and a…
▶27-May-2021
Janaki Nair