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Comment: Reverse discrimination.

  • UPSC 1994
  • 20 marks
  • Salient Features of the Indian Constitution

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Reverse discrimination is the charge that measures meant to undo historical disadvantage themselves discriminate, burdening individuals on a ground such as race or caste that equality forbids. The label is a critic's word from American litigation of the 1970s; in India the same measures sit inside Part III, so the debate is really over what…

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  • Origin: The American Framing
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  • The Case for "Reverse Discrimination"
  • The Critique
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