Description
Non-discrimination and Equality in India
Contesting Boundaries of Social Justice
Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Author: Verma Vidhu
Language: EnglishKeywords
reservation; policies; scheduled; castes; creamy; layer; backward; classes; dalit; christians; Tamil Nadu; CRPD; Round Table; Round Table Conference; Scheduled Castes; Backward Classes; Reservation Policies; Creamy Layer; Kaka Kalelkar; Mandal Commission Report; Depressed Classes; Dalit Muslims; OBC Quota; Rao 2006c; OBC Reservation; Compensatory Discrimination; Dalit Christians; Rao 2006b; SC Status; OBC Woman; Institutional Social Policy Model; Political Safeguards; ST Status; Govind Ballabh Pant; OBC Category
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Social Justice is a concept familiar to most Indians but one whose meaning is not always understood as it signifies a variety of government strategies designed to enhance opportunities for underprivileged groups. By tracing the trajectory of social justice from the colonial period to the present, this book examines how it informs ideas, practices and debates on discrimination and disadvantage today.
After outlining the historical context for reservations for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes that began under British colonial rule, the book examines the legal and moral strands of demands raised by newer groups since 1990. In addition the book shows how the development of quota policies has been significantly influenced by the nature and operation of democracy in India. It describes the recent proliferation of quota demands for reservations in higher education, private sector and for women and religious minorities in legislative assemblies. The book goes on to argue that while proliferation of demands address unequal incidence of poverty, deprivation and inequalities across social groups and communities, care has to be taken to ensure that existing justifications for quotas for discriminated groups due to caste hierarchies are not undermined.
Providing a rich historical background to the subject, the book is a useful contribution to the study on the evolution of multiple conceptions of social justice in contemporary India.
Vidhu Verma is Professor at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She is the author of Justice, Equality and Community (1999) and Malaysia: State and Civil Society in Transition (2002). Her recent areas of research include political philosophy, feminist political theory and affirmative action policies.