Minorities-Whose Revile Became Shelter
Indian constitution is the largest written constitution of any country on earth. Reservation is a system of affirmative action in India that provides historically disadvantaged groups representation in education, employment and in politics. Based on provisions in the Indian constitution it allows the Indian government to set reserved quotas or seats which lower the qualification needed in exam, job openings and so on for “Socially and economically backward citizens”. The constitution which w as adopted by the constituent assembly of India in November 1949 and came into force on 26 January 1950 with no reservation of seats in legislative bodies and public services for religious minorities as originally planned. In fact, reservation was only allowed for socially and economically backward classes. Nevertheless it turned out to be a caste-based reservation instead of class-based reservation, entirely making Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes economically backwards. Initially, the reser...