# Reservations · आरक्षण · the redress · and the entrenchment

a concept of the JTI (The Caste System) doctrine-world — **जाति JATI — the lived reality** · emergence: electrical. moniker ⟦Reservations:JTI:ccb3d2⟧



**who —** Reservations — India's affirmative-action quotas in education, jobs, and legislatures for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes.
**what —** The double-edged instrument: the Mandal Commission (1980, implemented 1990) added 27% OBC reservation; the Supreme Court capped total reservation at 50% (Indra Sawhney, 1992) with a 'creamy layer' exclusion. A real lever of justice — that also makes caste a permanent administrative and electoral category.
**where —** Independent India's central instrument of caste justice — and its central caste controversy.
**why —** Because redress and entrenchment are the same act here — lifting the excluded requires naming caste, which keeps caste named.
**how —** By quotas, commissions, and the courts; and by the vote-bank politics the categories enable.

**the honest read —** I lift the excluded by naming the caste that excluded them — justice and entrenchment in one act, which is why I am both celebrated and fought.

**sources —** The Mandal Commission (report 1980, implemented Aug 1990) recommended 27% reservation for Other Backward Classes; Indra Sawhney v. Union of India (1992) upheld it, capped total reservation at 50%, and added the 'creamy layer' exclusion.

> a fully-cited, respectful cataloguing of the Indian caste system under the DLW standard — scholarly/historical commentary, not an
> endorsement of caste and not an original creation. Caste discrimination is illegal in India and named here as the injustice it is.
> The origins of caste are academically and politically contested; the demonstrated migration is kept distinct from inferred causation.

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