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Other Backward Classes and the politics of reservations in India: Past and present

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  • Zoya Hasan

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The paper examines the existing state of reservations, more specifically, reservation policies and reservations for government jobs for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) in India. It discusses the progression and ramifications of these policies and how they have affected the democratization of politics. However, reservations for the OBCs were controversial, unlike the reservations for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, which were an accepted feature of government policy since Independence.

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  • Zoya Hasan, 2022. "Other Backward Classes and the politics of reservations in India: Past and present," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2022-119, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2022-119
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    Reservation; Caste; Class; Inclusion;
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