Reservations: Fueling the Flames of Social Justice and Equality

 is it a curse in India, to be poor and in a higher caste?

is our legal system killing aspirations in the name of so-called equality?

Higher caste people often say why we need to suffer for what their ancestors did, but don't hesitate while taking ancestral assets

ok! we got the point, how it was started, how it took the wrong path. But this is not it, all the things we talked about earlier are side-villains. Let me introduce the original villain of them all-BRITISH COLONISATION

If I have a lot of hefty tasks on my hands, what would I do to schedule them and divide them accordingly? That’s what Britishers did in the case of India, India is a strong country with kings and armies everywhere, and one of our strengths is our diversity, and different cultures all existing in a place. They used this very strength of ours, made it a weapon to use against us.

I'm not going too deep into the past if not this would be a research paper,

let us just go through some British laws, then we can estimate if is it a villain or not:

  1. Criminal Tribes Act of 1871: They conducted something like a survey and somehow believed that people who engaged in hunting, or performing arts were more likely to be involved in criminal activities. Cause of this these communities were faced with severe social and legal consequences.

  2. Indian Forest Act of 1927: With this act, they declared some specific areas as reserved forests and protected forests. And local communities who depend on it no longer have rights to them.

  3.Communal Award of 1932: The Britishers created separate electorates for different communities and this idea undermined a sense of competition and mindset of “us vs them”.

ok, giving you a break, it is clearly evident that communal riots and division skyrocketed when the British intentionally implied this on us.

Now as we are clear on Britain's impact on our society and how its laws directly impacted us, Let's go into one of the laws we created

Till now we may not have experienced any of these we talked about, but this man at least once we sat down and thought “Ye hai kyu?

what could it be…..

Right to equality is a fundamental right, but reservation shows some privileges to some sectors, it sounds more of a paradox than a policy.

Let’s think of it with a common example, in a family, one brother got hurt in his knee and the other one is healthy, of course, their parents will give extra protein to the hurt one. if we see it is not equality but it is what is necessary. the very obvious thing to do and quite justifying. but, what if after the healing parents continue to do this, this would mean what we are observing now.

This is not the fault of the hurt brother in the story to receive the extra protein but the parent's ill decisions.

can we totally blame the government (parent) for it?

India is not the only country with reservations , countries like Canada, Australia also have reservation system.. Even when you see some names in other countries like Willam Smith, they get this name from their ancestral profession.

People who saw Oppenheimer know, nuclear bomb impact nations, and internal wars between citizens are worst than that.

India is just another country that is dealing with a huge number of communities, cultures, religions, and castes, and here there would be of course some disruptions. to have a system to maintain and serve all needs of all groups.

It's been rooted in us for quite a long, like when Karna was adopted by his lower -caste parents, he faced lot of discrimination for it in society and at practice grounds.

Conclusion

The impact the colonial period has on India can't be ignored , and the legacy of those policies continue to influence us even today . Reservations, while initially a necessary measure, have turned into a  paradoxical policy. The idea should be moving beyond reservations and addressing root causes of social disparities . To build an inclusive nation , we must challenge ourselves to look beyond the differences.

While coming to reservation there's injustice happening  and we can't blame who’s responsible for it. We need to find a way to resolve and also new ways to grow. We know we realize that there’s some constraints that this system has put us under. Everyone has opinion on it but no a conclusion

After thinking all progressive and saying caste is shit!

Answer this truly for me, would you marry someone form lower caste than you , and convince your family for that?

Wondered about why India has more population ? wondered why we were never taught that chapter in biology? Come back, lets talk, sex education tomorrow. and yes its going to interesting.