How The Indian Government Got Everything Wrong
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As a proud Indian who hails from the lower classes who has now risen above to the middle class - reservations DID NOT work for us at all. It caused a very quick rise in an elite section among the depressed classes & lowered the actual standards of students of the depressed classes.
The best thing that should have been done was special coaching or special schools to help raise the depressed class students to the same standard & then compete on merit with PRIDE.
PRIDE is so important when you hail from lower sections of the society & that Pride must be earned via MERIT - not free doles.
So true.
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Ekdam sahi bola bhai. Maine bhi reservation ka chutiyapa dekha hai. SC/St wale mai to creamy layer concept bhi nahi hai aur agar 1 family got reservation then their next generation should not available the reservation benefits wala kuch T&C hona chahiye
The untouchables was meant to be slaves for the elites to exploited for cheap labors.
@@oneviwatara9384 Nope....we have so many Hindu Saints & Holy men from the so called untouchables - they were NEVER slaves. India never had slavery until Abrahamic religions brought in slavery, R*pe & genocide upon Hindus - most victims were Lower classes of Hindus like my community.
This is beyond true. Fir instance there is community called 'meena' in North Western part of India. They are deemed as a tribal community. But they take big chunk of quotas reserved for tribal communities. And they are much more prosperous than any other tribal community. Funny thing is they are seldom considered untouchables and have had dominant position in society and politics.
Tell me about a single historical proof that untouchability was practiced across India. And on massive scale.
Not Bollywood gutter chaap propoganda. Hard numbers. Real data. Something that can b calculated. Laws that required such practice. And punishment and damages caused by anyone that broke d rules. When it began. How it spread. Who spread it and y.
On and on.
Nothing except fake missionaries account exist. Which they did to everyone slave colonies to brainwash them. To divide and rule.
The problem is reservations is the creation of India out of dozens of totally different nations and then applying same laws from Delhi. The lower laste in one nation may be very high (e.g central nations around Ganges) but not so high or not so brutal in far south, far north nations but their laws are made from thousands of miles away Delhi. In the US and western world, states make their own laws and even have their flags.
India is like 50 countries. Every nation should create their own laws and reservation needs based on local ethnic needs and local voting etc which can vote periodically. There is also migration of lower caste, poor nations to richer nations, displacing the local ethnic lower castes of that nation.
Because the reservation was meant for bheel Meenas and not Meenas which was a well off group
And meenas are extremely incompetent
Source: trust me bro
"So few have got any benefit at all, yet all suffer from the backlash." A lesson we should learn in our country.
He is most stupid person i have heard in life, Indian upper caste have criminal minded behaviour and they will keep targeting other whether reservation exist or not, the untouchable of India are facing persecution since thousands of year because criminals minded behaviour of upper caste of India, the reservation is provided not for economic upliftment but for proper representation of lower caste so that they can fight for their right in buerocracy, government,politics,education and other aspects of life, if upper caste of India has criminal mind,its them who have to change and with time they will learn their lesson
I wouldn't have used the word 'backlash'.
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 what then?
Mechanical Term. Wheel turning one Way..and Kicks..
Anyone trying to teach that lesson, anyone trying to speak that lesson, is called a some kind of ist of one shape or another. If you win the debate you can with the "war" or change society, unfortunately in the United States the debate isn't even allowed to be had in a nationally meaningful and good faith way.
People from the West can literally see the mistakes so many Asian countries have made and learn from it. It just baffles my mind how people from the west actually want to do the same things we want gone from our society.
"Reservation" is something most Indians are fed up of, yet now Americans want it for their own country? So weird.
People who are under the control of the devil like to learn the hard way
We have our indian reservation and you have your Indian reservation
@hj2711 Indians love reservations. Apache, Iroquois, Cheyenne, Cherokee, Dalit, malyalee, ghati, bhaiya all. I mean all. 😂😁
Everything went wrong for you and India. History will prove it
British Christian missionaries stole and looted £45 trillion from India which was the richest nations in the world . 24% of GDP contributed. By India before foreign invasion. When foreigners had to vacate India, Indian GDP fell to 1%, poverty, illiteracy, violence, failed government administration, No agriculture no manufacturing no technology, britishers made India the worst place to live on the earth but Britain won two world wars and succeed in industrial revolution using the looted money of £45 trillion. India became the bottom nation and Brittany became the top nation by 1947, the year of , Indian independence .
Foreign invaders introduced religions in India and spilt Indian people in to various castes and names them in government records unilaterally. They named Bharat as India They made a gift of new Indian religion , named Hindu as a new religion for India . They recorded so in government records
Ultimately split nation as two and one nation for a religion. Funny , a religion based nation a creation of Britain.
Foreign invaders of India, had no vision, no culture, no civility , religious fundamentalists , illegal conversion using blackmail black magic and offering freebies, in typical,English culture.
These foreign invaders were shameless uncivilized religious fundamentalists . Totally opposite to the divine Indian culture
But law of karma ( you reap what you sow) will catch up. India will be world leaders by 2035/2047 in all nations in all,fields politics, science research academies education health infrastructure development agriculture manufacturing and technologies . Indians will rule you one day. Signal,is in Uk
Britishers and westerners have no moral rights to discuss India
@@futureisyours3016 it's stupidity without compition we can't get best. ! It's cheating actually! Give them financial help and so on
But atleast do not give them easy seat ☹️😑😶
Easy job ! Why tf no qualification criteria similar for everyone ? Why ?
Without hyperbole, Thomas Sowell is one of the finest men the United States ever produced.
He is most stupid person i have heard in life, Indian upper caste have criminal minded behaviour and they will keep targeting other whether reservation exist or not, the untouchable of India are facing persecution since thousands of year because criminals minded behaviour of upper caste of India, the reservation is provided not for economic upliftment but for proper representation of lower caste so that they can fight for their right in buerocracy, government,politics,education and other aspects of life, and Indian upper caste doesn’t develop hegemony on decision making positions, if upper caste of India has criminal mind,its them who have to change and with time they will learn their lesson,nobody fear them anymore in India, this guy is just a illiterate Black stupid man
Yet usa is in the dump. Right
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16% a..the dalits untouchables......
I feel sorry for them
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
@@eliascommentonly4652 IF you wanna know about India speak to Indians! Not clueless Mericans!
@@eliascommentonly4652Dalits today are millionaires and the “upper caste” are among the poorest.
The real problem with reservation system in India, is that the People among the Untouchables who have received the benefits and have gotten rich since a generation, their children are going to receive the benefits and they will beat those Untouchables who are still poor, and there is no restriction on economic status of the untouchable family receiving benefits.
All in all, it has created this elite class of Untouchables among the Untouchables who are rich and can afford luxury and get reservation as well.
Actually things are going to change....as for being rich one must have business...but since those upper middle class untouchables get govt job easily, in future they will go down to lower middle class...while rich middle class upper cast going to lead this country in business just because they didn't get govt job. Already we can see many new young businessmen are from such families.
Yes govt should gave made some law about that.
That’s actually what I observe, now one of my friend has multiple ias ips in family, 10s of luxury cars and what not, but she still gets reservation, which poorer from the same community deserve more.
Can't do because 70% population are in reservations kota and no gov in this world would dare to do that
Same in case of temple rich families. There is also temple reservation in india which is 100% reservation for only for so called upper castes, which is a form of discrimination. But nobody talks about it. Here's simple calculation. consider
50000 temples in India x 5 bramhin priests in each temple = 250000jobs for a only a caste who oppress other people
As a poor Brahmin I affirm everything he said.
Yes we see how poor people burn a dalit boy for touching water pot in school
@@vipint3694 bhej video
@@vipint3694 please stop the rumour mongering
@@fitandvirileif u r educated, u can google search it, else it only proves that u r a thug
@@vipint3694 most atrocities on Dalits are committed by OBC goons for which peace-loving Brahmins are blamed
We had riots at the B.H.U. Varanasi every year. The untouchables could pass exams with only 40% marks whereas caste kids needed 70% marks to pass, so they protested and clashed with the police leading to the campus shutting down for weeks on end.
Would you rather have a 40% pass be your heart surgeon or a 70% pass?
@@krishnanunnimadathil8142
Would u take a flight where the pilot was hired because of reservation??
@@stallonegodinho6296 That’s why they have prayers before flying 😂
Indian upper caste is paying reparations for crime of their ancestors,if you want to end reservation then give up all property earned by your ancestors using caste system and live like untouchables for future 1000 year, baap ki chori ka faal bete ko bhugatna hota hai😂😂,tumhare baap daadaon ne bahot paisa kamaya hai bhagwan aur caste ke naam par, aab bhugto😂😂
@@max-cs9ko The job of a University is to educate people. Not to uplift untouchables. A brainless Shudra no matter how much education you give him. Will always be brainless
British Chief of 1921 India census: “We pigeon-holed everyone & if we could not find a caste for them, labelled them with hereditary occupation. We deplore the caste system & its effect on social and economic problems, but we are largely responsible for the system we deplore.”
Still blaming the British? 😂
@@ianghose1 truth is truth
@@swostika-m8x The Brits did more for the upliftment of lower castes than any Manuwadis like you
@@ianghose1still buying into their ignorant narrative to uphold your uncultured worldview?
As an Indian, it makes me sad that an economist from the United States has a better understanding of reservations than our own politicians.
he is like the expert in studying exclusion of community. But India has something different.
Sorry this gentleman barely knows anything bout India! And is yet another clueless smug elite yapping away giving armchair commentary!
Most Indian Politicians are aware. Its just vote bank politics to divide the people and appease Minorities and try to win elections pretending as if they don't know reservations t did not help. Ambedkar himself had set a time limit for reservations.
Now that reservations has become institutionalized, it wont be removed because of vote bank politics and the following quote again by Thomas Sowell
"When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination."
Reservations helped Western countries especially USA since all the bright have no future and no good income fetching and merit recognised based jobs here. Hence they seek jobs there and work well, RECOGNISED well and succeed well. So reservation policy is a policy with good intentions for India, profit for USA at India's expense but bad outcome to India itself. USA is making huge profits using Indian talent and selling its hi-tech stuff to India.
spot on
They have far less understanding actually, that is why he never proposed a solution for the problem of institutionalized discrimination based on caste in India.
The question is if not reservation what is the alternative arrangement for discriminated communities to free themselves from Institutionalized casteism. Just doing away with reservation is just not going to solve the problem of Casteism in India that has been ingrained in the society for 2000 years.
India has the largest population, yet if more than 50% of the population is discriminated and are not part of the mainstream society how do you expect the country to develop and prosper?
Thank you sir for acknowledging this.
I am from India and I got 750 score in GMAT and couldn’t get into medium tier college in India all because 50% of seats are reserved for quotas (scheduled tribes,scheduled caste and other backward classes)
Thank you for providing great insights upon this topic.
Here, in the States, Asian can't attend Harvard because they need open slots for other minorities ( even though they score lower on the tests).
"backward classes" You sound like a bigot.
Indian upper caste is paying reparations for crime of their ancestors,if you want to end reservation then give up all property earned by your ancestors using caste system and live like untouchables for future 1000 year, baap ki chori ka faal bete ko bhugatna hota hai😂😂,tumhare baap daadaon ne bahot paisa kamaya hai bhagwan aur caste ke naam par, aab bhugto😂😂
@@max-cs9ko Upper Caste and lower caste aren't based on birth. Nobody is forcing lower caste people to be lower caste. They are choosing to identify themselves as lower caste. It is their fault
@@keyurpatel1982 It is their fault they are born to beggars or the most unskilled laborers and do not have the chance to attend school? You sound like some Hindu Communists I have known.
Well many Buddhist nations had a proper caste system like, for example upper caste South Koreans of Nobi caste didn't allow people of Baekjeong or Cheonmin caste to enter the cities but, instead of giving freebies or reservations the government of South Korea decided to industrialize the nation and improve the country's infrastructure. They were as rich as India in terms of per capita income in 1960s and now they are 20X richer and guess what? The caste system doesn't exist anymore.
India opted for social development instead of economic development, not realizing that social development is a byproduct of economic development, because money fixes all the problems.
I have made a video explaining the Buddhist Caste System, i would really appreciate if you give that a view.
Same with japan too. But tbf nehruvian and weird Indian policies also harmed India's economic growth too. Post 91 the growth has been phenomenal
This is not mainstream knowledge in India. The cases of Japan and Korea are never discussed.
That’s very interesting. Wish we learnt that in our schools here in India!
@@servingitcold5107 Even European countries like France had untouchable castes
India is 30 times bigger in population, so US & West would have required 30 times which they couldn't after SWWar.
In India, affirmative action doesn't provide for 3%. It is now 50% and, in some regions and institutions affirmative action is as much as 80%.
He meant only 3% benefit
@@priyadarshi8548 he made this video in 1980s when there was no obc quota .
There was only SC ST quota
It is 100% in temples
OBC reservation is scam
@@y1.5 no one is forcing you to go to temples. Also it's not true many temples have non Brahmin priests. But I guess cherry picking is what you are best at
Only an foreign experts could have said this openly. Experts in India are so politically sensitive about this issue that they never say the full truth
So true
Tumne sunna hi nahi usne kya kaha merit dhari ek baar aur sun.
Exactly.
@@RealRandomVideos ok he says affirmative action gives seats in colleges or government seats but the population reservation is targeting will not even get highschool education firstly ,and his second point was affirmative or reservation targets seats or opportunities which elites want which increases resentment against the people elites "already hates"(this is my remark) aur jo hamare yaha k elites woh toh h hi jaativaadi woh toh chahte hi nahi h ki unke jaati k alawa koi aur aye, and he says reservation instituted so poorly it helped no one and his reason was it doesn't help them so it should be abolished (matlab kuch bhi chutiya logic apne desh ka affirmative action khatam kare ye jo blacks aur asian ko milta h,dusri baat baba shahab saaf saaf keh k gaye the lagu karne wale logo p depend karta h chahe kitna bhi acha samvidhan ho brahmanvaadi jo iss desh k logo s nafrat karte h woh adange dalenge hi)
@@vishalpatkar6819 What are you talking about??? Open your Eyes.....We are a Third World $hit hole still Stuck in Colonial Mindset.
It's good for the USA, because all the brilliant Indian kids who perceive a lack of future in India, due to the Reservation policy move to Western countries and in most cases comprise the highest earning ethnic groups in these countries. The number of people giving up Indian citizenship has risen to a record high of around 1.5 million people/year in 2022.
Even before that usa was still good 😊
I think US corporates and business honchos have collaborated with our cheap politicians and greased them to continue and increase this lopsided policy,by which they can get good indian talent in America easily,😊😊😉
Can you tell me how much it costs to go over there legally, and start a life, for an okay-ishly performing student?
@@karthikbr2541 lol
That's why they don't allow H1 visa lol
Bhakt logic
USA is a dead country. Last 15 years I am
Seeing the decline of USA with my very own eyes
Indian reservation system was the vision of Dr. Ambedkar. It's goal was to create more equality amongst all Indians, in reality it created more inequality among unequals.
British stooge Ambedkar
True. I had this topic in an exam. It was a debate. I made a girl cry 🤣🤣🤣. She knew she was losing the debate and started crying to gain sympathy. Nobody fall for it.
@@souventudubanned The course was called soft skill. It is a course for placement drive. It contained aptitude test,Debate etc.
@@vergil4816 perhaps it's at least better than those who beat people to death those who entered temple
@@vipint3694 Which People? What Temple? Who died?
@@vipint3694 provide proof punk
@@vipint3694Me when I don't provide a semblance of a source to my point
SC reservation is just 14 percent obc the big shots have 27 percent reservation this is where it went wrong after mandal commissions parody . SC reservation is well justified they should by all means get it , second problem is what grp of people or ethnicity is counted in sc groups how does it make sense to count the warrior bhills from Rajasthan to be counted in this they were the ones who fought Mughals through out centuries. Why are valmikis , Munda and gonds included in the list . And for god's sake remove the obc reservation , when the janta party went out of power the new govt reliased what their predecessors have done since direct abolition would have caused more riots than it occurred during the passing of the act and loss of face they invented something called Creamy layer which means you will be tagged obc but no reservations for you that brings down the total takers for reservation but the percentage still remains un altered, thus no one gets it those seats are simply wasted , thousands of seats in top educational institutions are vacant . And then on top of this women reservation 5 percent or so to make matters worse
@@souventudubanned because Munda and gonds are ethnicities not castes and tribes chattisgarh and jharkhand government itself doesn't consider them as a caste group rather a full fledged ethnicity which itself has 100s of casts some very rich influentianal land owners and king makers others tribal why give reservation to a ethnicity rather identify those particular casts groups like the khasis and nilgiri people. Obcs were never backward or any sort of stigma they associate with obcs , the valema kama kappus in Andhra are the dominant all supreme people in Andhra and telengana guess what they have reservations same with almost 80 percent obc groups cut them sort have reservations for the people who require it rather then classifying every group of people in the country in to a catogary. Above all aren't the upper caste guys poor , yes they are why aren't they entitled to any benifits the rich land owners and politicaly influential obc people have in the south . The entire system is screwd
@@souventudubanned now every one want to be victim so they can invlude in quotas ...
80% obc reservation benefit goes to Muslims.
We don't need any reservations. Period. It didn't make any sense. Seats to the top institutes should be given on the basis of merit only. How well the academic level of these institutes increase when half of the students are selected through quotas over much smarter students.
A good historian is worth his weight in gold.
He is most stupid person i have heard in life, Indian upper caste have criminal minded behaviour and they will keep targeting other whether reservation exist or not, the untouchable of India are facing persecution since thousands of year because criminals minded behaviour of upper caste of India, the reservation is provided not for economic upliftment but for proper representation of lower caste so that they can fight for their right in buerocracy, government,politics,education and other aspects of life, and Indian upper caste doesn’t develop hegemony on decision making positions, if upper caste of India has criminal mind,its them who have to change and with time they will learn their lesson,nobody fear them anymore in India, this guy is just a illiterate Black stupid man
This is the reason I follow this channel. They finally hit on the nail.
All in all, it has created this elite class of Untouchables among the Untouchables who are rich and can afford luxury and get reservation as well.
Elite class of untouchables lmao.Upper caste's are pathetic
Wow, Thomas Sowell knows about EVERYTHING.
He has got it wrong, resentment is not because of reason he has stated. Resentment is because of following reason
1. If 15 seats are in quota and 3 are filled among them rest is not given to general category, they are kept vacant
2. These quota seats are most often picked up by 2nd or third gen individuals who are economically well to do and are no longer considered untouchables. The real downtrodden never gets uplifted.
wow, no longer considered untouchables by you?
Bhakt
"The real downtrodden never gets uplifted".
Truer words haven't been spoken
You too have gotten a few things wrong.
There are vacant seats in the general category as well - which is why, you'll see backlogs in ALL CATEGORIES in advertisements for employment in government institutions all the time.
Which is to say both general and sc, st, obcs are not qualifying and not just sc, st, obcs as you casually just implied there.
And that, my friend is why there's resentment, because the general class thinks its better and deserve others' share of the pie.
It just made the govt offices inefficient.
Sowell is actually making a nuanced argument. He's not sure what would help the lower caste. But only sure of what has not helped which is how the affirmative action was implemented in India. In the long run, it only helped a few and in fact has created more problems than solve according to him.
Yep, something which most commentors on the video don't get.
The problem could be solved with industrialization but india went for services instead which though good in short and medium term is bad overall had india industrialized a lot of those problems most of the caste barriers in urban and rural areas are going away due to increase in wealth and yes capitalism most indians have been force fed the socialist jargron but industrialization would have done with india what happened to china i still hope it happens in the next decade or so.
Decent primary education and vocational training (preferably through edu vouchers and private schools) raises everyone to a minimum acceptable degree of productivity and thus economic status. The social stigma will take longer to die, but it will die once the economic and educational level has reached a minimum acceptable degree.
The reservation system in India is one of the reasons why the brain drain is happening. Most intelligent Indians migrate to western countries because they cannot get seats in top government educational institutions. An upper caste student cannot clear the cut-off even after scoring 90/100, but a lower caste student can clear the cut-off by just scoring 50/100. The reservation system was supposed to be ended after ten years, and it shouldn't have been exceeded by 50%. However, it's still there after three decades, and reservation has crossed over 50% in several Indian states. Many upper-caste Indians are fighting to be included in the reserved category. Sadly, the politicians will not end this system; otherwise, it'll be political suicide for them, and they'll lose power.
जपतक सनातन धर्म की अपनी सामाजिक सुरक्षा व्यवस्था (social security systems) नहीं बनती तब तक , रिजर्वशन और आदी योजना चालू चाहीये। वरणा प्रलोभन और दरिद्रता मे से लोग प्रलोभन चुनकर धर्मांतर करेंगे
atleast upper caste has the privilege to go outside and study..your statement only highlights inequality in access to resorces.
@@VishalKumar-xp6gz not every upper caste have it. Upper caste population is 40cr but only top 0.01% manage to immigrate their number is in 2/3 lakh. Rest 99.9% are stuck here like you.
Western tech, societal structure, modern healthcare with less population, pollution, best institute which gives theoretical and practical knowledge which helps to tackle real world scenarios, healthy and wealthy life are the reason people migrate and it's not india alone but throughout Asia.
The higher caste wants to boast about their caste and expects to be included in the reservation!
I’m from India and I can definitely confirm what Mr Sowell says is 100% true.
The reservations often help the lower castes of people who’s parents are already rich doctors & engineers because they were given benefits of the affirmative actions or reservations as we call it.
It leaves a lot of resentment in the general group of people since India has some of the most competitive entrance exams for Universities and Jobs which often have a lot of reservations to be used only by the rich from these groups. It’s not effective system at all.
Ru u a dalit too? I mean u look like one.
I’ve noticed the lighter ones like you agree with him lmao and I’m not even Indian.
I think reservation has actually helped lower cast people up to some extent which would not have been possible otherwise in India , but now a days it has become more of a political tool to get votes. Just for total of 1-2% govt jobs.
The problem is reservations is the creation of India out of dozens of totally different nations and then applying same laws from Delhi. The lower laste in one nation may be very high (e.g central nations around Ganges) but not so high or not so brutal in far south, far north nations but their laws are made from thousands of miles away Delhi. In the US and western world, states make their own laws and even have their flags.
India is like 50 countries. Every nation should create their own laws and reservation needs based on local ethnic needs and local voting etc which can vote periodically. There is also migration of lower caste, poor nations to richer nations, displacing the local ethnic lower castes of that nation.
Yes you're right Mr. Sowell. The untouchables are the main reason why the competent ones are sidelined.
@@souventudubanned its not even about untouchables , they only take 15-18% of seats but obcs who did not face much discrimination that take lion's share of seat . even though as per statistics most of caste based violence is done by obc on sc st .
An excellent example of dishonestly putting words in someone's mouth.
Well, if you want to boast about being a higher caste, you'd have to sacrifice something, don't you?
I’m not sure why some in the Western media talk about India becoming a superpower. After visiting that country a few times over the years I don’t see it ever becoming a middle income country, let alone a superpower.
Thanks to particular group of people. If you know what i mean.
You're absolutely right mate I'm Indian myself if India were to become a superpower it should've become by now after independence but due to failed government failed policies failed politicians the people have been nothing but robbed. No wonder we still immigrate to 1st world countries in huge numbers.
You'll see Indians coping with the excuse of colonialism for what is India today but nobody even questions or thinks how the common man has been robbed by the politicians since independence. It is still an absolute socialist shithole.
There are 2 ways of looking at it. One of them is the conventional way which you evidently subscribe to & have just explained which is to say - the UK for example , keeps rising & India keeps playing catch up. The other way which seems more likely, thanks to Brexit & it's after effects, the Wuhan virus & it's after effects & the Ukraine war, is for you to stop rising & in fact fall in to a prolonged recession & India keeps trudging along.
You see in this scenario, we get to become a great power faster not just on the basis of our achievements but also due to your regression.
thannx to your ancestor
Then how did it become 5th largest economy last month and well on its way to become 2nd in a decade.
U only read and c what u wanna from a highly rwciwt viewpoint. Which is great for their progress.
It’s for “Political Votes” not to help anyone, 3-5 % people of communities benefits from it but other 70-80% Votes for it hoping one day it will help them too.
Ding ding ding. Finally someone gets it
Another word for affirmative action is Appeasement /Vote bank Policy
One wishes that India had courageous intellectuals like Sowell to speak the real truth about how miserably the Reservation policy has failed in the country and contrary to expectations, created a "backlash."
Indian intellectuals support everything that is against India 😂
Situation of lower castes began to improve in India mainly after economic liberalization when India moved from socialist economy to market economy and gradual movement of people from villages to cities.
Economic policies aside we share a rare name. Congratulations fellow human .
Actually, everyone's condition in India except for socialism era political and bearaucratic elites improved after liberalization which started industrialization in India.
This shows how important industrialization is for everyone rather than handouts...where Bihar, the state which is leader in reservations and handouts is poorest state of India...same with bengal which went from richest state to one of poorest after such policies.
I think we shall thank IMF and World Bank that they made Indian govt. follow liberalization if they wanted more loans.
India was not a socialist economy. It was a command economy.
It wasn’t lower class that improved. Poor from every class benefited. It had nothing to do with caste. Show me a single research that conclusively ever proved the merits of the proposal. Not a single research.
And no other research since to assess its success. Only desis could b fooled so easily. They’re still trying to b good slaves so d master won’t beat them
@@yj9032 license raj
We've great IITs for engineering, AIIMS for medical education, etc. but none of these public funded institutions make it to good global education standards mainly because of such system of giving power to the govt to correct certain historical wrongs thus lowering our own education standards and making deserving meritorious candidates to prefer settling abroad than staying here in India.
Kuch bhi,jab iit nahi tha tab bhi Brahmins and upper caste bahar m padh kar settle ho rahe h ,merit kya janamjaat hoti h madarchod , tumahre genes alag h bhosdike videshi genes h kya videshi ho kya madarchodo.
@@souventudubanned there are millions of examples where these quota jokers do not pass the engineering/medical degrees and waste 50% of the seats. Even if they pass they are not hired by companies cause they are still dumb. Their only goal is to get the degree and get a government job on further quota.
Absolute lie, search some data, 99.7% teachers in IITs are General Category teacher...
Lies ...this is what you are saying...do you even know that IITs are regarded as one of the best in the world... Go check it.
When you are accustomed to privileges equality feels like discrimination
We are being screwed even today.
People in India are whining about reservation. The reservation indeed was supposed for 10 years but what did society & government did (it doesn't matter which government let alone Congress, BJP or other) they all robbed them.
You want to remove reservation? Then remove the dirt in your heart for them. Treat them like your equal give them A1 citizen treatment like you give yourself. & Then Remove reservation & honor them as they should be.
These sc caste category themselves doesn't want reservation if you treat them their equal. They want equality on equal terms.
One other thing politicians do not want it to happen for two reasons.
1) vote bank
2) they don't consider them their equal (coz most of the politicians belongs to the upper castes.
Dude the point is reservation is a failed policies it always benifit rich sc st never poor one who are 90%.
Woah! Woah! Now you're just asking too much! - some casteist, probably.
Lol fake news
Mr sowell, please adress the Sri Lankan crisis as well, considering its laregly swept by in western socities.
In India we 50%plus reservation now.
In cities in India, I have never seen the concept of untouchables, any discrimination is class based as in any other countries. I dont know about villages but all communities in villages are segregated
@@dushantshinde5687 tu convert hoja aur minority kota lele. Hame samajik sudhar k naam pr advasi nahi banna. Na hi apna desh barbad krna he jisme sirf ye dekha jayeki ek insan ki caste kya h naki uski kabilyat. Agar ye aarakshan chlta raha toh desh ka ek bar fir btwar hojayega.
@@akashkumar-ee7pw nahi hoga batwara agar hum gaddar Brahminvadi aur jativaadi madarchodo ko iss desh s bahar fek d.
@@souventudubanned city m gandagi kon saaf karta h?
@@souventudubanned rehende bro tu brahmanvaadi h jhut bol bol raha yaha aake.abhi Delhi m maare the septic tank m dhere dhere sabko ye maar denge tumhe toh phir bhi kuch nahi dekhega.
Depends on place to place bro! Hindu states enforce untouchability one way or the other!
If I say the same words, I get called a Brahman Supremacist. When it comes from a person of colour from the US, I'd love to see what the neo-ambedkarites have to say
Sowell is clearly the smartest African American
You get called that probably cz you are
@@NidzShah-ps6kr You are entitled to your floridly delusional prejudices. Just do not expect someone, who has not yet taken leave of his senses, to agree.
@@rishavkumar1250what a patronising thing to say. Thomas Sowell is one of the most respected thinkers in America, black or white.
Well vedas rigveda gives definition of four varna, yajurveda mentions definition of chandal and nishadha which is proof of birth based varna system and discrimination, mahabharat has many stories about birth based varna system ( check what " sut" in sutputra karna means) , bhagwat Gita talks about paap yoni etc and says one must do work of varna he was born into no matter how bad he was at it, and never do work of other varna no matter how good he is at it, (bhagwatGita 18:47)....with this context all Gita is actually trying to implement birth based varna system and discrimination out of which caste system originated. So caste discrimination is a religious problem that needs to be addressed
There wasn't a day gone by in my college thinking about how reserved students in my classroom who despite having better income, education and social status than me gets to study through a far lesser rank in entrance examination.
You should study your history a bit to get rid of your crap. In India the low cast so called untouchables suffered the atrocities for thousand of years and it was impossible for them to compete with others like us. Yes any system has drawbacks and perhaps there is somewhat overutilization of reservation policies in many areas but it does not negate the history and it does not change the fact that it has helped uplifting a large portion of the Indian society.
@@Techie-time thousand how..
@@saialhuwalia7810 Aryans Invaded / Migrated to india almost 4000 years back , they placed caste system on local population. It’s No brainer to see why Indian population is heterogeneous. Aryan Brahmins are fairer where as Adivasis look australoid , shudras look like dravidians . Obviously they belong to different races , that’s how caste system came into existence . Read Discovery of india by Jawaharlal Neheru . Right wingers say Islam ☪️ and Christianity ✝️ is forgein . Which is true , both committed atrocities on Indian population by and large . But they don’t talk about their own wrong doings . How they destroyed Harappa Valley civilisation which was egalitarian and imposed caste system , brought brahmanism from Central Asian Steppes .
@@AD70003 aryans were minority..minority can't opress someone for 1000 years ...plus megasthenes and Chinese traveller's didn't mention any form of casteism..
@@AD70003 There is no "Aryan" group or identity. There were different groups which came at different times, eg Iran, the Steppes etc.
The thing with the reservation system is that people are more willingly trying to segregate themselves into castes by any means possible so as to gain benefits of this caste reservation system thus, instead of people ACTUALLY moving on from this cancer of a system, they are latched onto it more and more....
People are already divided.
He is right in many aspects except that affirmative action in India is more than 65 % today given to the ones who don't need it....that's the reason for resentment not the needy people taking 3 jobs out of 50....
He is the most well informed public intellectual in the West.
According to government of India, over 63% of dropouts are from the reserved categories from IITs ( indias MIT). About 50% of the admissions are reserved. This makes deserving students angry.
Yes when the human kill a dalit boy for touching water pot that is ok
There is no bus in India during that time 🤣🤣
The caste system in India is horrendous.
Yes it is.
How is it any different in the west? You may call it by different names but its still there.
Actually it’s very similar to serfdom in Europe and indentured servitude. The only difference is Europe industrialized and India never did - it is still a pre industrial society. China and korea which had it equally bad overcame their discriminatory practices through progress and industrialisation.
India is still stuck with the socialist policies of the 40s.
Not defending the caste system which is horrendous. But the pathetic situation of say the untouchables is more due to the lack of resources / poverty than the caste system. That’s why there was another category called backward caste created primarily along economic lines. And some in these demographics have it just as bad (if not worse).
@@Otto-Just I don't think so. In US, the richest 0.1% always significantly changes after 1 or 2 generations. For example, Elon Musk's father was a nobody when Rockfellers were the richest. This never happened in a caste system.
@@vijayclan1 India was rich and prosperous before the British sailed upon its lands, then it appears like it went all down hill from there. The west destroy everything, and turn their own people into spaghetti brained zombies
Wrong info by Thomas Sowell. India has several affirmative seats for different so called historical persecuted people. It totals to 50% reservations due to affirmative action from college admissions to Government jobs. So much that when an average middle class person, facing massive competition (due to overpopulation) applies for a good college he is very unlikely to get through unless he /she is exceptionally good. That's why the IIT colleges of India are so good, for example. It's not because the colleges themselves offer anything extraordinary but the kids who got those 50% seats went through hell (less than 1% acceptance rate in IITs) and were very talented. The other 50% seats are mostly not even fully filled & are below average people.
Well said. In India it was always politics rather than actual helping people. Rich obc dad put his son in medical and iims or iits then same guy get reservations throughout his career
The problem is not that we who question the program don't want solutions, it's that we don't think easy solutions exist.
He is most stupid person i have heard in life, Indian upper caste have criminal minded behaviour and they will keep targeting other whether reservation exist or not, the untouchable of India are facing persecution since thousands of year because criminals minded behaviour of upper caste of India, the reservation is provided not for economic upliftment but for proper representation of lower caste so that they can fight for their right in buerocracy, government,politics,education and other aspects of life, and Indian upper caste doesn’t develop hegemony on decision making positions, if upper caste of India has criminal mind,its them who have to change and with time they will learn their lesson,nobody fear them anymore in India, this guy is just a illiterate Black stupid man
There are no solutions, only tradeoffs
As an Indian I completely agree with you. I am from a small village and the condition of the village untouchables hasn't improved even one bit. They are still treated as untouchables. I repeat, people from other castes still don't touch them out of discriminatory attitude, let alone any prospects of them getting social mobility. And yet, the "upper castes" (the unreserved castes) resent the quota system because some urban elite castes within untouchables are taking advantage of all the quotas reserved for them. The goodwill and harmony among castes is completely eroded, and the empathy has become identity driven due to the quotas.
Ancient India did not have untouchables or caste system. India has varna system where it was not fixed but people can between varnas based on their abilities.
Caste was introduced after Islamic and colonizers invaded India
Still Hindus still practice this system whole heartedly even after 75 years of independence
So take accountability
hahahahahah. Indians are seekers, they are not believers, according to some. They always reinvent something new in seeking
Brilliant and very educational episode 👏 👌 👍
Thomas Sowell TV is jumping onto the Indian viewership bandwagon :D But otherwise, HUGE respect to the man. I listen to his audiobooks almost everyday now. _/\_
0:25 correction - untouchables weren't even allowed to share the same transportation as upper castes. They were made to walk.
Thank you sir
Such clear thinking belies years of hard work and thought. And got there by his own effort. A model
Even american elite blacks couldn't drink from the same cup, Ambedakar was founder of modern India constitution and he was from a lowest class.
The man talks sense.
perfect. what is really happening is that similar to the 15% untouchables called SC/ST, there is a 15% at the other end who are called FC (Forward Caste) who obviously don't get an affirmative actions. In between there is a 70% OBC/MBC (Most Backward Class and Other BC) who are actually quite well off, who, due to democracy and demographics included themselves to appropriate a lions share of the reservation quite undeservingly. these people were generally not treated as badly as the SC/ST and hence should not have been beneficiaries.
As an Indian the problem as I see was that governments never invested well in creating schools where the foundations for the underprivileged could be laid.
Instead, they gave reservations at colleges and jobs where the fight should ideally have been on merit.
Resentment happens when someone who slogs his butt sees that he cant get promoted as there are reservations there too!!!
Resentment happens when successive generations took reservations benefits in highest levels calling themselves untouchables!
Instead of focusing and investing at the bottom, governments focused on top purely for optics, and here we are.
This is a great observation of what is widely ignored.
It goes to show that knowledge can give you great insights yet those in power remain ignorant with their ways as they cannot be dissuaded from furthering their harmful actions
Lot of this is sort of common knowledge for us Indians in India but nobody ever put the whole thing in words so eloquently.
He is right when he says economic resources. People want india to increase the number of seats asap.
Reservation may be a failed policy because so few got the benefits while all got the backlash, alternatively the grip of control by high castes in all sections of society would have guaranteed no untouchables got anywhere or anything. To really understand this issue you need to understand the Indian mindset which is deeply entrenched in a class based thinking of higher and lower which transcends racisms based on skin color. Indians can look identical in physical feature but have great animosity once ones caste is known, this is fairly unique to this population. I believe the caste based thinking is one of the reasons the British took over Indian with relative ease as their was no unity among the various people against a common enemy in addition to the British claiming their superiority the population was already used to believing someone was higher or lower to them it was natural that the British could convince the elites they were higher than them.
It is really contestable whether absolutely no improvements to the opportunities for the untouchables would have been obtained in the absence of affirmative action. A look at the history of India since the 1800s would bring this out. Enough and more examples exist of members of lower castes been granted opportunities by various privileged individuals including upper castes as well as ruling families.
High castes would grip control over “their domains” the way lower castes would control theirs. What has happened with affirmative action, it seems, is that the values of the upper castes have been established as the desired values for all, with quotas for untouchables to make not the untouchables improve their living, but for upper caste votaries of affirmative action to feel good about themselves.
How do we know? Judge the difference between aims and outcomes.
Not saying that problems did not exist, but the issue could have been dealt with differently than with affirmative action. All it has done, in retrospect, is to set the stage for enduring social tension between people. There may have been better ways, and at least from the libertarian perspective, economic freedom would have been better.
The British inherited power from the Mughal Empire which was Muslim not Hindu. Arguably it was a fragmented polity but significant sections were still ruled by Muslims. You need to re visit your sources or better still get newer ones. It's either that or you're not interpretating the data properly.
What about letting people into universities or jobs according to test scores? That way the people who score the best, regardless of caste or untouchable status, would get the positions?
@@barryon8706 that's exactly what's happening in 50% of the seats. What's being debated is the balance 50% .
@@ic5442 Why not make that 100%?
Dr Sowell speaks the truth that we Indians are uncomfortable about. Indian government, leaders and people got it wrong! And are still wrong!
At the root of it all is blatant cultural discrimination. The upper castes preempted proper resolution of the issue. They washed off their guilt and responsibility by legislating it in the form of quotas and reservations. End of discrimination !
- leadership did not raise the moral conscience of the people that their behavior was immoral and criminal.
- the lower castes are permanently condemned to be at the bottom to pick up filth and not much more!
- The lower castes were beaten, raped, forced into farm labor - century after century and generation after generation! They literally survived on scraps thrown at them by the upper castes.
- There is no understanding of the history of brutal and criminal behaviors towards the lower caste people.
- All we know is that we approved quotas and we are done! We have no responsibility anymore!
- till today, it is the upper castes who select who they will give the ticket to run for elections. The lower caste people remain dependent on the goodness of the upper castes. But it all looks so clean and washed.
We owe the lower caste people a mighty apology. We owe them respect. To uplift them we need to provide resources such as modern (not legislated obsolete) education, water, electricity, protection from predatory cultural practices that encourage discrimination! Some of this work has started under the current government. We must do more.
Thank you Dr Sowell.
Standards in education are just not there anymore in America’s past it was common for a 4 year old to have read the Bible. You may not be religious but being able to read at that level by that age would be considered genius today!!
A class mate in school. He had bought forms for the medical school admission. He did not even fill it. He was not telling why but was stuck on one of the last pages on the form which required a govt office stamp identifying him as from the quota category. I convinced him to ride to the govt office and that I will also go along. He agreed. When we reached there there was a peon, who was of the same category as my friend, ask for Rs50 to stamp the form. My friend had Rs 12 and I had Rs 2.50. On showing some agitation from me, the peon told me "Don't destroy your friends life. Do you have any idea how much money is required to complete medical education even in reserve category. Here your friend dose not have Rs50 to pay bribe for completing the form". 100% of people in India who need affirmative action are in this situation. And the caste based affirmative action at least in 2000s has going totally wrong in delivering.
Actually I disagree with this gentleman. India did not have 3% quota for the lower caste folks like the gentleman said. It had 50% quota for them. Hence the resentment against the folks with the quota. As a result you had a bunch of under qualified folks in govt jobs with decision making authority that didn't understand their work leading to bureaucratic failure and lower growth for everyone in India. Hence a lot of the smarter population that came out of this system fled India resulting in further decline. It's only thanks to its huge population that India has been able to somewhat recover from the flawed "reservation system" (affirmative action system) in India. Malcolm Gladwell had a very good book on the flaws of affirmative action worldwide including the US.
Resentment factor is overplayed here, people have pretty much accepted reservation
Before 16th century there is no word such as untuchable, caste etc. What lived was varnashrama dharma. But these people will never tell u that the west brought these concepts to divide the hindu masses.
Abolish caste as a term you'll remove reservation too.
Couldn’t have said this any better 👍
जपतक सनातन धर्म की अपनी सामाजिक सुरक्षा व्यवस्था (social security systems) नहीं बनती टॅब तक , रिजर्वशन और आदी योजना चालू चाहीये। वरणा प्रलोभन और दरिद्रता मे से लोग प्रलोभन चुनकर धर्मांतर करेंगे
This Social Security system can only be established once all the Hindu temples are freed from government control
This is the kind of personal harm that comes from government tinkering with social engineering. Targeted groups, whether they deserve preference or not, rarely benefit from the expensive and intrusive programs meant to help them.
Our MiyaLords and petty Policiticans need to watch this video
जपतक सनातन धर्म की अपनी सामाजिक सुरक्षा व्यवस्था (social security systems) नहीं बनती तब तक , रिजर्वशन और आदी योजना चालू चाहीये। वरणा प्रलोभन और दरिद्रता मे से लोग प्रलोभन चुनकर धर्मांतर करेंगे
@@dushantshinde5687 u have perfect understanding of the situation without any grudges
Finally a smart and logical person.where were you from all those my youtube years?
One correction, the quota system for marginalized section of the society only applies to government job, not the private sector job which now are only 5% of the total jobs in India. Rest all are theoretically on open merit but the people benefiting from caste system for centuries take this quota system as example to spew hate towards lower caste communities.
If the quota system has only 5% of jobs then why have Muslims been demanding reservations?
And reservation is beyond just govt jobs it's applicable to education, promotion during govt jobs, etc.
@@PentangleYT again government universities and other governmental institutes don't represent the whole of Indian society. It can be 15% of the overall jobs and university placement, but rest 85% are on open merit.
Just a question, isn't there a merit to select a candidate or student within the seats reserved for quota? If there is, then there is still a merit within the reserved seats.
As far as Muslims are concerned, their own mistakes have contributed to a lot of their own problems. I will not present any excuse for their problems.
Lol you forgot to mention affirmative action not only present in job it is present in every part of life from scholarship to get a seat in school college everywhere that's why it affects tremendously
@@adash7841 are not dalit beaten to death for entering temple
Lol... Feeling jealous that losers like you can't steal jobs from deserving candidates in the private sector? Cry about it.
AS AN INDIAN I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH THEIR ARGUEMENT
I think Quota System in India should have a income limit so that it would benefit the targeted since now there are some Family whose generation after generation are benefiting from the quota System and exactly the poorest of poor don't even Graduate how could they think of trying for a seat in a medical college.
It is there, and it's called a creamy layer. You have to be below a certain income level to get Non- creamy layer certificate. But that income limit is so ridiculously high and they keep increasing it every year that now it has practically become useless
@@aleenaprasannan2146 it's only in case of OBC not in case of ST and SC.
@@kmh9817 you are right
@@kmh9817 ever seen those who beat a dalit boy to death for touching water pot in school
@@vipint3694 bro technically I'm a SC guy but unfortunately in Assam we are recognised as OBC here. I'm not saying we don't need reservation I'm saying we need a limit of Income or usage of the reservation because even among the reservation now it is being dominated by the once who have developed a higher status already and it's too hard for the Poor guy to compete within his own group. And to the story you have mentioned it is very disgusting no wonder why people from the Dalit communities are converting. I'm a Hindu but I'll think it's better to leave a system which is oppressing a individual. That's the reason Ambedkar converted to Buddhism. To our story we are brought by British to work in Tea plantations as bonded Labourers. Majority are Dalits but recognised as OBC by the state govt. Still people are working as labourers for silly minimum wages. Also a very small group of us also got out of the vicious cycle of poverty and illiteracy we are better to some extent in comparison to the General publics as well.
I have been thinking about this for like years & I am not even graduate yet. I wonder if our policymakers are wilfully dumb
"complementary resources". wow. that's such a simple concept and it explains so much of my own personal story as well as so much of the waste I see in government policies.
The resentment he's talking about is REAL. Middle class people who are highly qualified and high-income individuals are leaving India in droves.
They are contributing to the growth and creating jobs and opening businesses in countries like UAE, US, etc., where they could've tried to do the same thing in India.
I've always said India would pay for affirmative action, now we see it happening.
I can vouch that everything he said is perfectly accurate, turns out he actually does have a deep knowledge of the actual real situation in India.
Very very true😅
Treat people as human ,as you would like to be treated. He nails it.
When more than 50% are reserved for certain sections in the name of reservations, people who do not fall into that section will start to resent it.
The system is so bad that in certain states of India, the reservation % crosses 70%. Merit be gone, and politicians are hell bent on screwing certain sections of the society and rewarding others.
There are cases every year where a medical college admission is given to a student who scored negative marks in admission exam and people who scored above 90% are not granted a seat.
reservations are not just for seats in colleges, jobs, promotion in jobs, preferential treatment in government schemes, and seats in parliament
This is incorrect on a few points.
1) Firstly he is using a blanket term untouchables to describe a range of socially unprivileged classes including SC, ST and OBC, which clearly depicts his own understanding on this matter.
2) He is wrong when he says that most people who get benefits of reservation in government job or colleges are "historically privileged untouchables". I have been a student in one of the premier institutions with reservation and while I saw a few cases of financially well off people using reservations, overall the students with reservation were generally from less privileged homes as compared to general category students who were from well off families. There can be exceptions to the rule, but overall there was a strong correlation between the students social and financial status and socially unprivileged groups did receive the benefit.
On the other hand my younger brother was educated in a college without reservation (BITS) and he saw a toxic culture of elitism due to the dominant demographic being financially well off rich brats.
I do agree on the point of resentment, as most of my peers who were resentful about reservation in premier institutions were too sour about not being able to crack the exam themselves.
I am from a forward caste and support reservations for ST/SC because it is clear to see that many of them advanced because of these policies.
He forgot to talk about 1 more issue- the lower caste people who managed to get these reserved positions and managed to come to the mainstream their children are now inhibiting the benefits reaching to the others who are left behind. The "creamy layer" that has formed in the lower caste is using these benefits generation after another because they're better prepared to take advantage of those benefits (compared to those who still are far below mainstream)
A few points about the "reservation" system in India:
1. It was started as a temporary thing for ten years only. The aim was to remove the class indifference in that time and then not require it any further.
2. 75 years later instead of stopping the temporary arrangement, the quotas for reservation have actually been increased, and some want even more reservations.
3. A vast number of the "upper caste" people are actually living in poverty today and many work very basic labor jobs. They live far from a privileged life
4. A person of "lower caste" could be rich today and still avail all the reservation benefits.
5. Possibly the majority of the "lower caste" people who have made it big in life today have done it on their own merit and hand work, and not due to any reservation quotas.
Needless to say, the reservation quotas today is simply a political tool used by politicians to bait the poor and virtue singnal their "generosity"
Completely fake
I am not sure where Dr Sowell sees backlash. Intellectually thats what he might think but actually there is very little backlash, in fact far less than what we have seen in the US against affirmative action. Whether they have been effective is different and definitely worth discussing.
Reservations HAVE made a massive difference. I have myself seen hundreds of lower caste, poor students get into IITs, NITs and then land 20+LPA jobs and just breaking the cycle of perennial poverty. It works!!!
Very less people
Yes, and their children, grandchildren get benefitted from quotas and poor from SC,ST,OBC don't get that chance
They said it right.
Schedule caste, schedule tribe and all those backward caste had reservation
For a guy like me it's nearly impossible to get a government job
British started this divide and rule and specific families like Gandhi- Nehru continued. What was supposee to happen better education and family planning for families, lower crime rate- (many times poor families are suffering because of alcohol abuse and women abuse). On the other side so many of our social reformers like Swami Dayanand Saraswati, Guru Nanak Dev and many more brought people together and made them to sit and have food at one places. Religion has played a significant role in healing and building societies.
The situation in India is extremely different from that of USA. Even today the dalits are tortured, lynched, raped and killed. What would Mr. Sowell suggest that can resolve this issue?
Mr. Sowell himself mentions that the affirmative action quotas are inaccessible to the majority of the untouchables because of their miserable economic situation. If that is the case, why not let the affirmative action continue and in addition, economic support be also given which would render them accessible.
The resentment towards affirmative action is clearly uncalled for and unjustifiable on the part of the so called upper castes which again further proves the point of the lingering discrimination and prejudice. The solution to the resentment is certainly not abolition of affirmative action, but abolition of the resentment itself, abolition of casteism and nothing else.
The reservation only goes to a small elite within the dalit population.. it does not help others..
@@aj9969 According to Mr. Thomas Sowell, because of the poor economic situation of some among the untouchables are not able to access the benifits of reservation. For that his solution is abolition of reservation, which I don't think is the correct way.
Instead of abolishing reservations, in addition to it, financial assistance shall be given to those affected so that they will be able to access the benifits of reservation.
@@vakudibeardefender3953 Financial assistance is basically free "helicopter" money which will lead to relentless money printing taking the whole nation for a toss. What is actually needed are reforms from time to time if you want reservations to be kept but have an income basis in SC/ST reservations as well that will automatically weed out the rich among the SC/ST community who have been exploiting the system.
Also, talk about OBC reservations which have for years kept increasing according to the population but as per the law, an OBC candidate who has sufficient income (i.e pays income tax (agriculture in India is Income tax exempt)) will be considered as general candidate clearly cutting the general seats to next to nothing.
Final edit: OBC community takes up the lion's share in reservation despite not being discriminated
@@PentangleYT The financial assistance is just a suggestion. Other methods can definitely be explored. But total abolition of reservation will not bode well for them.
You're wrong matey! The quota system in India lifted millions of dalits out of dire poverty. Off course there will be resentment from the privileged - that's just the real world for you.
The 16% untouchables need to be reviewed. In the course of 800 yrs foreign (Islamic and British) occupation and rule a major section of society became extremely impoverished. A big portion of this was categorized as Scheduled Castes by British census and over the period these internalized themselves as untouchables and politicized and used for political gain and religious conversion purposes.
Lesson: never include affirmative action in constitution. The people who wrote Indian constitution were woke before it became a fashion, what a joke.