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Comment: Creamy Layer and social justice.

  • UPSC 1995
  • 20 marks
  • Caste, Religion and Ethnicity in Indian Politics

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The creamy layer is the advanced section of a backward class, excluded from reservation because it no longer shares the group's disability. V. R. Krishna Iyer warned in State of Kerala v. N. M. Thomas (1976) that the top layer of backward castes would corner reservation benefits. Indra Sawhney v. Union of India (1992) made…

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  • The Doctrine and Its Administration
  • The Case for Exclusion
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  • Reconciling the Two
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