TY - BOOK AU - TI - The politics of backwardness: reservation policy in India SN - 8122004768 U1 - 320.6 PY - 1997/// CY - Delhi PB - Konark Publishers KW - Dalits KW - Government policy KW - India KW - Reverse discrimination KW - Politics and government N1 - "Under the auspices of Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi."; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -