Ashwini Deshpande on Gender and Caste Discrimination and Affirmative Action in India
Ideas of India
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The Relationship Between Merit and Affirmative Action
i want to also get into the question of merit. There are two very typical, sort of, i want to call this, like the upper middle class and upper cast critique of reservation rihts o. The second is one of merit. Write, somehow this sense that those who are getting, you know, these jobs or these educational institution admissions because of affirmative action are not as meritorious as the candidates in the general category.
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