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Mandal II and Indian politics

	April 21, 2008

B. I. Saini More than 60 years after the attainment of freedom from British rule, India has now finally moved towards providing educational opportunities to the other backward classes, which constitute roughly 50 per cent of the country’s population. Steps for ameliorating the social and educational backwardness of the OBCs have been mooted for decades but there has been consistent and fierce oppostion to the moves from the privileged classes, otherwise described as the upper castes. The Ind ...