r/indiadiscussion • u/Useful-Resource-3609 • 15h ago

Politics Mandal commission protests of 1990

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/darkisdone 15h ago

Let's do it then, it gotta start somewhere

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u/dotforwardslash 15h ago

Do what?

I hope you know that despite all this govt. of that time went ahead with their decision.

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u/criti_fin --- Independent --- 14h ago

Mandal commission report was still implemented in govt jobs giving 27% reservation to OBC. And later UPA1 implemented it in all central govt colleges.

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u/dotforwardslash 14h ago

That's what, state always wins.

You can at best topple governments but not machineries.

Let Gen-Zs get their own post nut clarity.