SUPREME COURT AND LEGISLATURES ON RESERVATION

This book, ‘Supreme Court and Legislatures on reservation, contains the origin of castes from 3200 years, from the Mahabharata regime. At that time, two Varnas, namely Arya Varna and Dasa Varna, were divided into four castes, Brahmanas, Kshatriyas, Visayas and Shudras. These castes multiplied into thousands of castes by the time of Independence. A brief history of 99 significant dynasties who ruled different parts of our nation and their contribution to multiply the castes is in this book. British rulers came to India in 1600 and played caste politics to continue their ruling by enacting hundreds of Acts and Rules. List of these Acts, reservation made in Indian Councils Acts 1858, 1861, 1892, 1909, Government of India Acts 1919 and entire Government of India Act 1935, Round table conferences and Indian Independence Act are there in this book. The contribution of 18 Philosophers, philanthropists and freedom fighters who fought against castes such as Mahavira, Gautama Buddha, Ashoka the Great, Basavanna, Guru Nanak, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Dayanand Saraswathi, Jyothi Rao Govind Rao Pule, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Narayana Guru, Swami Vivekananda, Gopala Krishna Gokhale, Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj, Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, Mahatma Gandhi, Members of the Representative Assembly, Maharaja of Mysore Nalwadi Krishna Raja Wadiyar and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar is briefly given in this book.

The constituent Assembly debates for finalising the Indian Constitution, the contribution of drafting and other committees, and about 150 speeches made at that time in the Constituent Assembly debates regarding reservation are there. The percentage of various religions at the time of Independence and present ratio, number of educational institutions at that time and current position, the number of the working class in organised and unorganised sectors and entire geographical conditions of our nation is there in this book. Out of 104 Amendments to the Indian Constitution from 1950, 24 Amendments relating to reservation exist in this book. The recommendations of various commissions, including the Kaka Kelkar commission, Mandal Commission, and reservation policy in different States and various OBC Commissions constituted by such States, are given in this book. About 260 judgements of the Supreme Court of India on the reservation are there in this book. The ratio of these judgements, relevant paragraphs, and reports in which such judgments are there is in this book. To confirm this book’s authenticity, more than 600 links to Wikipedia, India Kanoon, and other websites are there.

In this book, the author’s endower is that in a democracy, the gap between rich and poor will be a continuous process. Extending the benefit of reservation to the persons below the creamy layer is a must. While doing so, the Government’s policy must mould to reach the reservation benefits to the poorest of the poor at the first instance, and after that has to be extended based on castes and social status.