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Write short note: Rationale behind Protective Discrimination.

  • UPSC 1989
  • Social Movements in Modern India

Protective discrimination is the constitutionally sanctioned use of group-based preference to correct inherited disadvantage. Its logic is that formal equality applied to structurally unequal groups reproduces inequality. Articles 15(4) and 16(4) permit special provision for socially and educationally backward classes and the Scheduled Castes and Tribes; Article 46 directs the state to promote their educational…

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