Topic: Reservation

The broader concern here is how some narratives, instead of advancing inclusive arguments for Muslim reservation, end up echoing dominant caste anxieties that delegitimize affirmative action itself. The need is not to pit communities against each other but to build solidarities rooted in historical evidence and social justice.

The Telangana Assembly on Monday passed two key bills allowing 42% reservations for Backward Classes in education, government jobs, and elections to local bodies.

Jamia Millia Islamia, one of the country’s most prestigious universities with minority status, is facing strong criticism for violating its 50% reservation policy for Muslim students in PhD admissions for the academic year 2024-25. 

In 2021, Subhash C. Kashyap, former secretary-general of the Lok Sabha, said, “It would have pained Dr BR Ambedkar to see that people are...

During a discussion held at Delhi’s Constitution Club of India on 27 August under the banner of the All India Institute of Scheduled Castes Activists (AIISCA), speakers criticised the creamy layer in SC/ST reservations, demanded reservations in the private sector, and called for the enactment of an Equal Employment Opportunity Act.

The concept of Dalit is an imaginative political construct to counter the philosophy and principles of the caste system. However, the sub-classification would lead to the disintegration of this concept by restricting reservations only to fewer castes and would eventually put an end to the reservation itself.