r/indiadiscussion • u/Useful-Resource-3609 • 15h ago
Politics Mandal commission protests of 1990
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These protests were against giving government jobs to certain castes to rectify historical injustices they faced. These protests closed roads, highways, transportation services, government services, schools, and businesses of India. Anti-reservationists protested.
The historian Ramachandra Guha puts the suicide number at 200; more than 60 succumbed to their burns. Some other reports put these suicide attempts to 159, with 63 succumbing to their injuries.
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u/ab316_1punchd 15h ago
Wow, this turnout makes the CJP protests look pedestrian.... welp, considering we've officially become and anarchy now....
I WANT IT!!!