01775nam a22002297a 4500 20211029115335.0 211029b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 8129109522 Al Eng 23 305.568 SHOF Arun Shourie 9295 Falling over backwards An essay on reservations and on judicial populism New Delhi ASA Publications 2006 xiv,378p. HB 24x16cm. ₹495.00 ₹ ₹495.00 How is it that what was explicitly forbidden by the Constitution - classification based on cast has become the rule? How is it that what were enabling provision have become mandatory minima? Where does the figure 50 per cent come from? How is that in practice it is exceeded blatantly? Are the benefits not being hogged by a few, the better–off among these castes? Has the “creamy layer” been actually hived off? How is that what were begun as reservations in promotion also? How did this become a right to accelerated promotions? How did that become a right “accelerated promotions with consequential seniority”? How did that become a right to have the prescribed standards diluted to the point of being waived altogether? Even in educational institutions. Is this any way to become a knowledge super - power”? As there has been no caste - wise enumeration and tabulation since the 1931 Census, where does this mythical figure, “OBCs are 52 per cent of the population” come from? And what did the 1931 Census itself say about its cast - wise figures? Dalits -- Government policy -- India 9296 Reverse discrimination in employment -- India 9297 SHOURIE (Arun) 9298 ddc GF 220281 220281 0 0 ddc 0 0 SOC AL AL 2013-03-24 0 305.568 SHOF GF02239 2021-10-29 00:00:00 0.00 2021-10-29 GF 0 0 ddc 0 0 SOC AL AL 2014-11-28 0 305.568 SHOF D05298 2022-12-22 00:00:00 2022-12-22 DB Donated by V. T. Rajshekar