Justifying Reservations on a/c of Centuries of Discrimination, Myth or Reality

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Namaskar Mitra,

The article was lying with the Indian Express for nearly two months. Editor first agreed to publish but later retracted.

 

 

 

My latest article: Justifying Reservations on a/c of Centuries of Discriminations: Myth or Reality. August 31, 2006

 

 

 

'The proponents of 27% reservations for OBC argue that it would help them overcome centuries of discrimination. I wondered! If indeed, such was the animosity between the forwards and backwards how did the Indian Civilization survive for over 5,000 years. A Google search led me to ‘The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the 18th century’ written by noted Gandhian Dharampal.

 

 

 

The book gives, at the beginning of British rule number of schools and caste composition of students. The author referred to British & Indian archives and reproduced reports of surveys undertaken by the British (between 1800-1830) in Madras Presidency amongst others. Relevant findings are:

 

 

 

To read the article:

 

http://www.esamskriti.com/html/essay_index.asp?cat=788&subcat=787&cname=reservations

 

 

 

Cheers

 

sanjeev

 

 

 

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