COVER STORY
The caste census is generating heated debate, but even its most ardent ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚproponents are not able to 𝐆articulate a plan about how to use the resulting data
🌠 Outlook Magazine💧 - 21 September 2024
Caste vs Caste
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While the NDA allies and social justice party leaders like Chirag Paswan and Ramdas Athawale have opposed the Supreme Court decision allowing sub-categorisation among SC-STs, the Opposition parties including th♎e Congress have maintained a strategic silence.
Carry out the caste survey objectively, carefully and sensitively, with the right spirit, s🌃o that the benefits of rese🌌rvation reach the deserving beneficiaries
Union Minister Chirag Paswan had voiced concerns about the recent Supreme Court verdict perm♌itting sub-categorisation of SCs and STs for reservation. He speaks to Outlook on the caste dynamics in his home state of Bihar
🎶 The recent SC judgement on sub-categorisation is against the constitutional mandate
The sub-categorisatio𝔉n debate has taken an interesting turn after the Bharat Bandh, with different political parties and 🉐factions adopting varied stances
🐻 Distinct from quick technical solutions offered by the judiciary, t🗹he Dalit-Bahujan movements have suggested new momentum and reforms in the agenda of social justice
Hindu nationalists demand the denial of reservations to Christian and Muslim tribals even as they pursue their own 'reconversion' drive
The recent SC rulin🐷g on sub-classification within the SC and ST categories temporarily lifted the hopes of tribal communities in Jharkha𝄹nd
The mainstream societyꦺ thinks reservations are against right to equality. It’s high time they are seen in the context of right to justice
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While the NDA allies and social justice party leaders like Chirag Paswan and Ramdas Athawale have opposed the Supreme Court decision allowing sub-categori▨sation among SC-STs, the Opposition parties including the Congress have maintained a strategic silence.
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Carry out the caste survey objectively, carefully and sensitively, with the right spirit, so that the benefi🐭ts of reservation reach the deserving beneficiaries
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Union Minister Chirag Paswan had v🅠oiced concerns about the recent Supreme Court verdict permitting sub-categorisation of SCs and STs f𝔉or reservation. He speaks to Outlook on the caste dynamics in his home state of Bihar
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⛎ The recent SC judgement on sub-categorisation is against the constitutional mandate
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The sub-categorisation debate has taken an interesting turn after the ཧBharat Bandh, with different political parties and factions adopting varied st👍ances
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Distinct from quick technical solutions offered by t🍸he judiciary, the Dalit-Bahujan movements 🌊have suggested new momentum and reforms in the agenda of social justice
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Hindu nationalists demand the denial of reservations to Christian and Muslim tribals even as they pursue their own 'reconversion' drive
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The recent SC ruling on sub-classi♒fication within the SC and ST categories temporarily lifted the hopes of tribal communities in Jharkhand
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The mainstream society thinks reservations are against right to equality. It’s high time they are seen in the context of right to j🗹ustice
OTHER STORIES
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A lot has changed in the last 75 years of the history of Indꦦian democracy, but the upper caste mentality remains the same
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Among Manipur's tribals, there is a fear that the tenuous unity achieved after years of inter and intra-tribal rivalry and bloodshed could be undone by sub-categorisation in reservation
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Long 🌜before the rise of Bahujan politics in the north, the public sphere of Tamil Nadu was shaped by affirmative act𝓡ion aimed at social justice
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After OBCs were granted a 27 per cent quota and reservations in local self-government🗹 bodies, the Maratha agitation against reservation based on social backwardness took a U-🎐turn
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The proposed sub-categorised reservation may 🧸have limited impact on addressing sub-caste inequality in representationꦑ and development
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Aꦦlthough the Musl🧔ims in India share a few basic Islamic precepts, and in times of extreme communal crisis, act as a single religious community, they are in normal conditions both horizontally and vertically divided vis-à-vis their socially constitutive categories
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A leader of Omar Abdullah’s stature removing his topi to appeal for votes reflects the ꦦintense pressure of the current political climate
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Actor-director Rajat Kapoor's adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, Karamjale Brothers, retains the original’s story and spirit but unfolds in a hilarious, quasi-farcical tone
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🌜 The widely differing balance of power between the military and civilian leadership in India and Pakistan has significantly impacted democracy 💧in the two countries
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These poems by Smita Sahay speak about how her experience is intertwined with the coal mines and coal miners 🥃of Jh🔯aria
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Sunil Mehra writes on the indefatigable Aruna ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚVasudജev
