Supreme Court and Legislatures on Reservation

A Legal History on Reservation in India
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Description
This book, 'Supreme Court and Legislatures on reservation', contains the origin of castes from 3200 years, from the Mahabharata regime. At that time, two Varnas, namely Arya Varna and Dasa Varna, were divided into four castes, Brahmanas, Kshatriyas, Visayas and Shudras. These castes multiplied into thousands of castes by the time of Independence. A brief history of 99 significant dynasties who ruled different parts of our nation and their contribution to multiply the castes is in this book. British rulers came to India in 1600 and played caste politics to continue their ruling by enacting hundreds of Acts and Rules. List of these Acts, reservation made in Indian Councils Acts 1858, 1861, 1892, 1909, Government of India Acts 1919 and entire Government of India Act 1935, Round table conferences and Indian Independence Act are there in this book. The contribution of 18 Philosophers, philanthropists and freedom fighters whofought against castes such as Mahavira, Gautama Buddha, Ashoka the Great, Basavanna, Guru Nanak, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Dayanand Saraswathi, Jyothi Rao Govind Rao Pule, Mahadev Govind Ranade, Narayana Guru, Swami Vivekananda, Gopala Krishna Gokhale, Chhatrapati Shahu Maharaj, Periyar E.V.Ramasamy, Mahatma Gandhi, Members of the Representative Assembly, Maharaja of Mysore Nalwadi Krishna Raja Wadiyar and Dr. B.R. Ambedkar is briefly given in this book.
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Contents
1. The Outlook of our nation
2. Emperors who ruled India from 3200 years and their contribution to Casteism
3. Leading personalities who fought against casteism in India
4. British Raj and its contribution to nurse Castes
5. Constituent Assembly Debates
6. Indian Constitution in 1950
7. The Indian States in 1947
8. The Constitution (Scheduled Castes) Order 1950
9. The Constitution (Scheduled Tribes) Order, 1950
10. Constitution of Backward Class Commissions
11. The Amendments of Constitution on Reservation from 1951 TILL DATE
12. Supreme Court rulings on Reservation from 1951 to date
13. CONCLUSION
14. Annexure - I 
15. Annexure - II
16. Annexure - III
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Author Details
P.Changalaraya Reddy, Advocate, Bengaluru
Yashpal Puliani, Managing Editor, Karnataka Law Journal
Foreword By
Justice M.N.Venkatachalaiah, Former Chief Justice of India