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A Casteist Rule: the 50% Limit on “Reservations”
The Supreme Court on 7th November 2022, upheld the Constitutional Amendment that allows for reservations for economically weaker sections (‘EWS’) in public employment and higher education. Among other issues, one ground of challenge was that the 103rd Constitutional Amendment allowed States to reserve more than 50% of positions, which is a cap set by the →
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A Caste Census is Long Overdue: Some Thoughts on the Vanniyar Reservation Judgment
On 31 March 2022, the Supreme Court struck down the separate reservations provided for Vanniakula Kshatriyas (or Vanniyars) by Tamil Nadu. The Vanniyars are part of the Most Backward Classes (MBC) category, which along with Other Backward Classes (OBC) and Denotified Communities (DNC), comprise the backward classes in the State. In February 2021, the State →
Mihir Rajamane 