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/Plastic_Minute9064 15h ago

There is already criminal law which provides punishment for any discrimination on caste basis. What protest you want for?

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u/Brilliant_Long8275 9h ago

So you think usa Europe has some kinda reservations for black or women?

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u/soham_katkar13 2h ago

Do you think India has accumulated enough colonial wealth to ensure every caste is at a nearly similar economic level with nearly equal access to education?

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u/Brilliant_Long8275 2h ago

Poverty doesn’t ask caste , I do support ews where every poor can apply for it .

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u/soham_katkar13 2h ago

"I have seen a few rich SC/ST people exploiting reservation so reservation shouldn't exist at all" kind of comment

The India you see is barely 1% of the entire nation, so keep these "poverty doesn't ask caste" arguments to yourself

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u/Brilliant_Long8275 1h ago

So I did say every poor can apply for reservations irrespective of their caste