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Reservation is a system of caste-based affirmative action in India.^[1]

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Affirmative action
Discrimination in India

Affirmative action

Affirmative action (also sometimes called reservations, alternative access, positive discrimination or positive action in various countries' laws and policies) refers to a set of policies and practices within a government or organization seeking to benefit marginalized groups. Reservation in India and Affirmative action are Majority–minority relations and social justice.

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Ahom people

The Ahom (Ahom: 𑜒𑜑𑜪𑜨) (Pron) or Tai-Ahom is an ethnic group from the Indian states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh.

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Allahabad High Court

Allahabad High Court, officially known as High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, is the high court based in the city of Prayagraj, formerly known as Allahabad, that has jurisdiction over the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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Andaman and Nicobar Islands

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India.

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Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh (abbr. AP) is a state in the southern coastal region of India.

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Andhra Pradesh High Court

The High Court of Andhra Pradesh is the High Court of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Anglo-Indian people

Anglo-Indian people are a distinct minority community of mixed-race Eurasian ancestry with British paternal and Indian maternal heritage, whose first language is ordinarily English.

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Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh is a state in northeast India.

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Arunthathiyar

Arunthathiyar is a scheduled caste community mostly found in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

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Assam

Assam is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Athlete

An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance.

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B. R. Ambedkar

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (Bhīmrāo Rāmjī Āmbēḍkar; 14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and political leader who headed the committee drafting the Constitution of India from the Constituent Assembly debates, served as Law and Justice minister in the first cabinet of Jawaharlal Nehru, and inspired the Dalit Buddhist movement after renouncing Hinduism.

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Backwardism

Backwardism is a derogatory comment intended to brand an ideology as stained by backwardness.

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Banjara

The Banjara are nomadic tribes found in India.

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Basic structure doctrine

The basic structure doctrine is a common law legal doctrine that the constitution of a sovereign state has certain characteristics that cannot be erased by its legislature.

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Bihar

Bihar is a state in Eastern India.

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Brahmin

Brahmin (brāhmaṇa) is a varna (caste) within Hindu society.

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Business Today (India)

Business Today is an Indian fortnightly business magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1992.

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Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in India.

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Caste politics

In India, a caste although it's a western stratification arrived from Portuguese word Casta and Latin word castus,is a (usually endogamous) social group where membership is decided by birth. Reservation in India and caste politics are discrimination in India.

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Caste system in India

The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic instance of social classification based on castes. Reservation in India and caste system in India are discrimination in India.

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is a nonfiction book by the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson, published in August 2020 by Random House.

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Census in British India

Census in British India refers to the census of India prior to independence which was conducted periodically from 1865 to 1941.

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Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is an Indian autonomous scientific society, operating under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.

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Chandigarh

Chandigarh is a city and union territory in northern India, serving as the shared capital of the states of Punjab and Haryana.

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Chartered accountant

Chartered accountants were the first accountants to form a professional accounting body, initially established in Scotland in 1854.

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Chhattisgarh

Chhattisgarh is a landlocked state in Central India.

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Christianity in India

Christianity is India's third-largest religion with about 26 million adherents, making up 2.3 percent of the population as of the 2011 census. The written records of Saint Thomas Christians mention that Christianity was introduced to the Indian subcontinent by Thomas the Apostle, who sailed to the Malabar region (present-day Kerala) in 52 AD.

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Chutia people

The Chutia people (Pron: or Sutia) are an ethnic group that are native to Assam and historically associated with the Chutia kingdom.

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Communal Award

The Communal Award was created by the British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald on 16 August 1932.

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Constitution of India

The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India. Reservation in India and Constitution of India are law of India.

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The Indian judiciary has made judgments related to reservations, a system of affirmative action that provides for disadvantaged groups.

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Creamy layer

Creamy layer is a term used in Indian politics to refer to some members of a backward class who are highly advanced socially as well as economically and educationally.

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Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu

Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu is a union territory in India.

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Dalit

Dalit (from dalita meaning "broken/scattered") is a term first coined by the Indian social reformer Jyotirao Phule for untouchables and outcasts, who represented the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent. Reservation in India and dalit are discrimination in India.

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Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.

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Delimitation Commission of India

The Delimitation Commission of India is a commission established by the Government of India under the provisions of the Delimitation Commission Act, tasked with redrawing the boundaries of legislative assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies based on the last census.

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Denotified Tribes

Denotified Tribes are the tribes in India that were listed originally under the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871, as Criminal Tribes and "addicted to the systematic commission of non-bailable offences." Once a tribe became "notified" as criminal, all its members were required to register with the local magistrate, failing which they would be charged with a crime under the Indian Penal Code. Reservation in India and Denotified Tribes are discrimination in India and law of India.

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Dentist

A dentist, also known as a dental surgeon, is a health care professional who specializes in dentistry, the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth.

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Department of Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare (Tamil Nadu)

The Department of Backward Classes, Most Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare is one of the departments of Government of Tamil Nadu.

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Dhangar

The Dhangars are caste of people found in the Indian states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Madhya Pradesh.

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Economically Weaker Section

Economically Weaker Section (EWS) in India is a subcategory of people having an annual family income less than and who do not belong to any category such as SC/ST/OBC (Central list) across India, nor to MBC in Tamil Nadu.

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Election Commission of India

The Election Commission of India (ECI) is a constitutional body established by the Constitution of India empowered to conduct free and fair elections in India.

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Enabling act

An enabling act is a piece of legislation by which a legislative body grants an entity which depends on it (for authorization or legitimacy) for the delegation of the legislative body's power to take certain actions.

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Ethnic groups in Europe

Europeans are the focus of European ethnology, the field of anthropology related to the various ethnic groups that reside in the states of Europe.

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Forward caste

Forward caste (or General caste) is a term used in India to denote castes which are not listed in SC, ST or OBC reservation lists.

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Goa

Goa is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats.

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Government of India

The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.

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Government of Uttar Pradesh

The Government of Uttar Pradesh (ISO: Uttara Pradēśa Sarakāra; often abbreviated as GoUP) is the subnational government of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh with the governor as its appointed constitutional head of the state by the President of India.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.

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Gurjar agitation in Rajasthan

The Gurjar agitation in Rajasthan were a series of protests in Rajasthan state, India, during 2008, and in later years. Reservation in India and Gurjar agitation in Rajasthan are discrimination in India.

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Haryana

Haryana (ISO: Hariyāṇā) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country.

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Hijra (South Asia)

In the Indian subcontinent, hijra are transgender, intersex, or eunuch people who live in communities that follow a kinship system known as guru-chela system.

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Himachal Pradesh

Himachal Pradesh ("Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a state in the northern part of India.

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Hindus

Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.

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Homi Bhabha National Institute

The Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI) is an Indian deemed university established by the Department of Atomic Energy, which unifies academic programmes of several of its constituent institutions.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian Air Force

The Indian Air Force (IAF) is the air arm of the Indian Armed Forces.

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Indian Armed Forces

The Indian Armed Forces are the military forces of the Republic of India.

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Indian Councils Act 1909

The Indian Councils Act 1909 (9 Edw. 7. c. 4), commonly known as the Morley–Minto or Minto–Morley Reforms, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that brought about a limited increase in the involvement of Indians in the governance of British India.

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Indian independence movement

The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.

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Indian Institute of Remote Sensing

The Indian Institute of Remote Sensing is an institute for research, higher education and training in the field of remote sensing, geoinformatics and GPS technology for natural resources, environmental and disaster management.

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Indian Institutes of Management

The Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) are Centrally Funded Business Schools for management offering undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and executive programmes along with some additional courses in the field of business administration.

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Indian Institutes of Technology

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are a network of engineering and technology institutions in India.

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Indian National Congress

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Indian Navy

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Indian reservation

An American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is autonomous, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S.

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Indian reserve

In Canada, an Indian reserve (reserve indienne) is defined by the Indian Act as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." Reserves are areas set aside for First Nations, one of the major groupings of Indigenous peoples in Canada, after a contract with the Canadian state ("the Crown"), and are not to be confused with Indigenous peoples' claims to ancestral lands under Aboriginal title.

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Indra Sawhney & Others v. Union of India

Indra Sawhney & Others v. Union of India also known as the Mandal verdict was an Indian landmark public interest litigation case delivered by a 9-judge constitution bench.

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Irrigation

Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns.

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Islam in India

Islam is India's second-largest religion, with 14.2% of the country's population, or approximately 172.2 million people, identifying as adherents of Islam in a 2011 census.

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Jat reservation agitation

The Jat reservation agitation was a series of violent protests in February 2016 by the Jat people of North India, especially those in the state of Haryana, which "paralysed" the state for 10 days. Reservation in India and Jat reservation agitation are discrimination in India.

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Jats

The Jat people are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan.

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Jharkhand

Jharkhand is a state in eastern India.

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Justice Party (India)

The Justice Party, officially the South Indian Liberal Federation, was a political party in the Madras Presidency of British India.

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Kapu (caste)

Kapu is a Hindu caste mainly found in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Karnataka

Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.

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Karpoori Thakur

Karpoori Thakur (24 January 1924 – 17 February 1988) was an Indian politician who served two terms as the 11th Chief Minister of Bihar, first from December 1970 to June 1971, and then from June 1977 to April 1979.

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Kerala

Kerala (/), called Keralam in Malayalam, is a state on the Malabar Coast of India.

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Kerala Public Service Commission

The Kerala Public Service Commission (KPSC) is a body created by the Constitution of India to select applicants for civil service jobs in the Indian state of Kerala according to the merits of the applicants and the rules of reservation.

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Kinnaur district

Kinnaur district is one of the twelve administrative districts of the state of Himachal Pradesh in northern India.

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Kolhapur State

Kolhapur State or Kolhapur Kingdom (1710–1949) was a Maratha princely State of India, under the Deccan Division of the Bombay Presidency, and later the Deccan States Agency.

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Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV

Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV (4 June 1884 – 3 August 1940) was the twenty-fourth Maharaja of Mysore, reigning from 1902 until his death in 1940.

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Lahaul and Spiti district

The Lahaul and Spiti district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh consists of the two formerly separate districts of Lahaul and Spiti. The present administrative center is Kyelang in Lahaul.

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Lakshadweep

Lakshadweep is a union territory of India.

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List of amendments of the Constitution of India

As of September 2023, there have been 106 amendments of the Constitution of India since it was first enacted in 1950.

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List of Muslim Other Backward Classes communities in India

This is a full list of Muslim communities in India (OBCs) that are recognised in India's Constitution as Other Backward Class, a term used to classify socially and educationally disadvantaged classes.

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Lok Sabha

The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha.

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M. Visvesvaraya

Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya (Moːkśguṇam Viśveśvarayya; 15 September 1861 – 12/14 April 1962), also referred to by his initials, MV, was an Indian civil engineer, administrator, and statesman, who served as the 19th Dewan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918.

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Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh (meaning 'central province') is a state in central India.

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Madras High Court

The Madras High Court is a High Court located in Chennai, India.

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Maharashtra

Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.

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Management consulting

Management consulting is the practice of providing consulting services to organizations to improve their performance or in any how to assist in achieving organizational objectives.

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Mandal Commission

The Mandal Commission or the Socially and Educationally Backward Classes Commission (SEBC), was established in India in 1979 by the Janata Party government under Prime Minister Morarji Desai with a mandate to "identify the socially or educationally backward classes" of India. Reservation in India and mandal Commission are discrimination in India.

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Manipur

Manipur (Kangleipak|) is a state in northeast India, with the city of Imphal as its capital.

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Maratha (caste)

The Maratha caste is composed of 96 clans, originally formed in the earlier centuries from the amalgamation of families from the peasant (Kunbi), shepherd (Dhangar), blacksmith (Lohar), pastoral (Gavli), carpenter (Sutar), Bhandari, Thakar and Koli castes in Maharashtra.

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Maratha Kranti Morcha

The Maratha Kranti Morcha, loosely translated as "Maratha revolutionary demonstration" in the Marathi language, was a series of silent and pragmatic protests organized by the Maratha community in various cities across India, and in overseas diaspora communities. Reservation in India and Maratha Kranti Morcha are discrimination in India.

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Marathi people

The Marathi people (Marathi: मराठी लोक, Marāṭhī lōk) or Marathis (Marathi: मराठी, Marāṭhī) are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who are native to Maharashtra in western India.

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Meghalaya

Meghalaya (or, "the abode of clouds") is a state in northeast India.

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Meritocracy

Meritocracy (merit, from Latin mereō, and -cracy, from Ancient Greek κράτος 'strength, power') is the notion of a political system in which economic goods or political power are vested in individual people based on ability and talent, rather than wealth, social class, or race. Reservation in India and Meritocracy are affirmative action.

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Mizoram

Mizoram is a state in northeastern India, with Aizawl as its seat of government and largest city.

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Moamoria

The Moamoria (also Matak) were the adherents of the egalitarian, proselytizing Mayamara Satra of 18th-century Assam, who initiated the Moamoria rebellion against the Ahom kingdom in the 18th century.

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Muslims

Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.

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Nagaland

Nagaland is a state in the north-eastern region of India.

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National Commission for Backward Classes

The National Commission for Backward Classes (abbreviate: NCBC) is an Indian constitutional body under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India established through Constitution Act, 2018 (also called, 102nd Amendment Act, 2018) this amendment act in the constitution to make it a constitutional body under Article 338B of the Indian Constitution. Reservation in India and National Commission for Backward Classes are discrimination in India.

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National Institutes of Technology (India)

The National Institutes of Technology (NITs) are centrally funded technical institutes under the ownership of the Ministry of Education, Government of India.

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National Legal Services Authority v. Union of India (2014) is a landmark judgement of the Supreme Court of India, which declared transgender people the 'third gender', affirmed that the fundamental rights granted under the Constitution of India will be equally applicable to them, and gave them the right to self-identification of their gender as male, female or third gender.

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North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences

North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) is a medical institute of India in Shillong, Meghalaya.

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North-Eastern Hill University

North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) is a Central University established on 19 July 1973 by an Act of the Indian Parliament.

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Odisha

Odisha (English), formerly Orissa (the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India.

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One Hundred and Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of India

The Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, popularly known as the Women's Reservation Bill, 2023 (IAST: Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam), was introduced in Lok Sabha on 19 September 2023 during the special session of Parliament. Reservation in India and one Hundred and Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of India are politics of India.

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Orphan

An orphan (from the orphanós) is a child whose parents have died, are unknown or have permanently abandoned them.

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Other Backward Class

The Other Backward Class (OBC) is a collective term used by the Government of India to classify communities that are educationally or socially backward.

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Outlook (Indian magazine)

Outlook is a weekly general interest English and Hindi news magazine published in India.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and may also legislate for the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories.

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Patidar

Patidar (Gujarati), formerly known as Kanbi (Gujarati), is an Indian land-owning and peasant caste and community native to Gujarat.

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Patidar reservation agitation

Starting in July 2015, the people of India's Patidar community, seeking Other Backward Class (OBC) status, held public demonstrations across the Indian state of Gujarat. Reservation in India and Patidar reservation agitation are discrimination in India.

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Physical Research Laboratory

The Physical Research Laboratory (PRL; Hindi: भौतिक अनुसंधान प्रयोगशाला, IAST: Bhoutik Anusandhan Prayogashala) is a National Research Institute for space and allied sciences, supported mainly by Department of Space, Government of India.

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Poona Pact

The Poona Pact of 1932 was a negotiated settlement between Mahatma Gandhi and Dr.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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President of India

The president of India (IAST) is the head of state of the Republic of India.

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Princely state

A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British crown.

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Public sector

The public sector, also called the state sector, is the part of the economy composed of both public services and public enterprises.

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Puducherry (union territory)

Puducherry, also known as Pondicherry (Pondichéry), is a union territory of India, consisting of four small geographically unconnected districts.

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Punjab, India

Punjab (Also and other variants) is a state in northwestern India.

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Rajasthan

Rajasthan (lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northwestern India.

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Rajbanshi people

The Rajbanshi, also Rajbongshi and Koch-Rajbongshi, are peoples from Lower Assam, North Bengal, eastern Bihar, Terai region of eastern Nepal, Rangpur division of North Bangladesh and Bhutan who have in the past sought an association with the Koch dynasty.

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Rajiv Gandhi University

Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) (formerly Arunachal University) is the oldest university in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.

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Rajya Sabha

The Rajya Sabha (lit: "States' Assembly"), also known as the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India.

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Ramsay MacDonald

James Ramsay MacDonald (12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931.

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Rapid Action Force

The Rapid Action Force (RAF), is a specialized rapid reaction wing of the Central Reserve Police Force of India established to deal with riot and crowd control situations.

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Reservation policy in Bihar

Reservation policy in Bihar is a system of affirmative action that provides historically disadvantaged groups representation in education and employment.

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Reservation policy in Tamil Nadu

Reservation policy in Tamil Nadu is a system of affirmative action that provides historically disadvantaged groups representation in education and employment.

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Reserved political positions in India

In India, a number of political positions and university posts are held for specific groups of the population, including Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and women in some cases.

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Rohtak

Rohtak is a city and the administrative headquarters of the Rohtak district in the Indian state of Haryana.

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Round Table Conferences (India)

The three Round Table Conferences of 1930–1932 were a series of peace conference's, organized by the British Government and Indian political personalities to discuss constitutional reforms in India.

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Sachar Committee

The Sachar Committee was a seven-member high-level committee established in March 2005 by former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

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Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes

The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups in India. Reservation in India and Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are discrimination in India.

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Shahu of Kolhapur

Shahu (also known as Chhatrapati Rajarshi Shahu, Shahu IV, Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj) (26 June 1874 – 6 May 1922) of the Bhonsle dynasty of Marathas was a Raja (reign. 1894 – 1900) and the first Maharaja (1900–1922) of the Indian princely state of Kolhapur.

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Sikhs

Sikhs (singular Sikh: or; sikkh) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak.

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Sikkim

Sikkim is a state in northeastern India.

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States and union territories of India

India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.

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Statute

A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative body, a stage in the process of legislation.

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Supreme Court of India

The Supreme Court of India (ISO: Bhārata kā Sarvōcca Nyāyālaya) is the supreme judicial authority and the highest court of the Republic of India.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.

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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is an Indian Research Institute under the Department of Atomic Energy of the Government of India.

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The Tea-garden community is a term for a multiethnic, multicultural group of tea garden workers and their descendants in Assam.

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Technology specialist

An IT specialist, computer professional, or an IT professional may be.

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Telangana

Telangana (ISO) is a state in India situated in the southern-central part of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau.

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Telugu Desam Party

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) is an Indian regional political party with influence in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

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The Hindu

The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.

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The Telegraph (India)

The Telegraph is an Indian English daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Kolkata since 7 July 1982.

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The Times of India

The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.

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Tripura

Tripura is a state in Northeast India.

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Tuni

Tuni is a City in Kakinada district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Union Public Service Commission

The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC; ISO) is a constitutional body in India that conducts direct recruitment of officers to the All India Services and the Central Civil Services (Group A and B) through examinations.

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United Progressive Alliance

The United Progressive Alliance (UPA; IAST: Saṁyukt Pragatiśīl Gaṭhabandhan) was a political alliance in India led by the Indian National Congress.

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Untouchability

Untouchability is a form of social institution that legitimises and enforces practices that are discriminatory, humiliating, exclusionary and exploitative against people belonging to certain social groups.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh ('North Province') is a state in northern India.

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Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand, formerly known as Uttaranchal (the official name until 2007), is a state in northern India.

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Uttarakhand Public Service Commission

Uttarakhand Public Service Commission or UKPSC is the state agency authorized to conduct the Civil Services Examination for entry-level appointments to the various Civil Services of state of Uttarakhand.

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Vice President of India

The vice president of India (IAST) is the deputy to the head of state of the Republic of India, i.e. the president of India.

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Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) is a major space research centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), focusing on rocket and space vehicles for India's satellite programme.

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Votebank

Votebank (also spelled vote-bank or vote bank), in the political discourse of India and Pakistan, is a term referring to a loyal bloc of voters from a single community, who consistently back a certain candidate or political formation in democratic elections.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Bengali: Poshchim Bongo,, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India.

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2022 Bihar caste-based survey

The 2022 Bihar Caste Based Survey was notified by the Government of Bihar on 6 June 2022 by gazette notification after a Supreme Court ruling. Reservation in India and 2022 Bihar caste-based survey are discrimination in India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservation_in_India

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