Reservation To Weaker Sections Of Society: Reservation To Weaker Sections Of Society

<p>The Indian society is characterized by a high degree of inequality based on the tenets of the caste system and this caste system is highly exclusionary in nature. Exclusion is integral to the system and thus a consequence of its basic features. Social exclusion between caste groups is ensured through the practices of endogamy and social separation. In retrospect every caste except those at the top of the caste hierarchy has suffered from unequal and hierarchal assignment of rights. The erstwhile oppression people having been located at the bottom of the caste hierarchy are the ones who suffered the most. For instance apart from manual labour and some occupations that were considered impure and polluting the erstwhile deprived communities were denied the right to do business or own property. They were even denied the right to education and civil cultural and religious rights.</p>