Tuesday, June 12, 2007

CASTE WARS OR SOCIAL HARMONY?

By M H AHSAN

Is India on the verge of a major social and political change? Two contradictory events - one raising the spectre of caste wars and the other of caste reconciliation - have introduced dramatic new possibilities to the Indian scene. There is little doubt that the recent confrontation in Rajasthan between the Gujjars and Meenas - the first a backward caste community and the other a scheduled tribe - has induced second thoughts about the policy of reservations based on castes, which the political class has been pursuing merrily for a decade and a half. Click here to read more.....

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