The politics of backwardness: reservation policy in India/ 
edited by V.A. Pai Panandiker. 
 - Delhi :  Konark Publishers,  c1997. 
 - xii, 338 p. ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Under the auspices of Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi." 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction / V.A. Pai Panandiker -- An overview / Pran Chopra -- Reservations policy for other backward classes: problems and perspectives / Shri Prakash -- Definition of the terms of scheduled castes and scheduled tribes: a crisis of ambivalence / Suma Chitnis -- Karnataka government's reservation policies for SCs/STs and OBCs / G. Thimmaiah -- Reservation and after: the case of Bihar / Sachchidananda -- Reservation policy: the West Bengal scene / Mohit Bhattacharya -- The Reservation system in Gujarat / Shri Prakash -- Reservations policy revisited / D.L. Sheth -- Consequences of reservations / Ghanshyam Shah -- Epilogue / B.G. Verghese -- Postscript: the Supreme Court as problem solver: the Mandal controversy / Rajeev Dhavan. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>8122004768 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Dalits--Government policy--India.<br/>Reverse discrimination--India.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>India--Politics and government
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.6   / PAN/P