This page has a list of resources online on the OBC reservation debates in India. This list will be constantly updated
This page contains an assortment of views on the reservation debate. As far as possible, I am documenting all articles I come across representing any point of view. As you will notice, a large proportion of these will represent an anti-reservation point of view. This merely represents the fact that there are many more of these online – and it’s most certainly not my position.
i would say that reservations for civil services should
be stopped.because these people shape the future of millions. Their governing skills can only be checked through the brute competition.I believe we should concentrate more on talent and not not make the oppertunities caste biased…
Caste is nothing but the relic of one of the irrational entertainments of middle ages, like lynching, burning at stake or other entertainments of (say)roman empire. Caste might not have succeeded in remaining alive after these many centuries unlike all these, had it not been for the forethought of early Indians during and prior to independence, who instituted the ‘pernicious’ reservation system whereby those backward willingly chose to remain backward. We(mostly of the forward caste(s)) are dutifully perpetuating this without realizing that by not facing as much competition as we would have faced otherwise(had reservation not been there), we stand to become much below rest of the world in all faculties in a few generations.
Thank you Roy for sharing your opinion. Our understanding of caste seems to be substantially different. I find it difficult to think of caste as an “entertainment”, while I agree with your portrayal of caste as a violent and suppressive practice. I also find it difficult to understand why caste would have disappeared without reservations. In fact, by empowering those who were long suppressed, reservations make the brutal oppressions that are a part of caste system difficult to sustain, and thus make the pernicious aspects of the system unsustainable. We surely have our differences.
I shall put my thoughts thus: In ancient India, competition was reserved for upper caste, as exemplified through to story of ‘karna’, who, even though was the first born among pandavas, joined Duryodhan as a symbol of gratuitude for enabling him, a lower caste , to compete. We are dutifully prserving this, instead of preventing a lower caste individual from competing with us, we are giving him what he would have gained by competing, without competition.