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Write short note : Protective discrimination : its sociology and politics.

  • UPSC 1985
  • Politics and Society in India

Protective discrimination is the constitutional policy of preferential treatment for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and backward classes. It leads two lives: a sociological one, as compensation for an inherited system of ascriptive disability, and a political one, as the most valuable currency in Indian competitive politics. The two rarely move together.

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