Socio-Economic Significance of Reservation

<p><span>Caste system with its inhuman practices has been with us for the last two thousand years. It has shaped the<br>fate of millions of people. The caste system gives different experiences to different people. It gives someone<br>pride and happiness but to someone it gives utmost pain and shame. If one experiences pain or joy out of the<br>caste system, depends upon where he or she belongs to the social hierarchy of the caste system. The caste<br>system has divided Indian community into thousands of castes which are living in closed social ghettos<br>without having any meaningful social contact and dialogue among them. India’s independence and<br>transition to a democratic republic from a slave dominion of the British Empire, under a constitution is, in a<br>way, a declared war against the caste system too. In this broad perspective the author analyses the socioeconomic importance of reservation to scheduled caste population in India</span><span>.</span> </p>