Analysing the ‘OBC-Minority' Sub-Quota

Khalid Anis Ansari — 2012-02-27T06:55:19Z

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The recent announcement of a 4.5 per cent sub-quota for backward sections within minorities in the overall Central OBC quota by the UPA Government on December 22, 2011 in the wake of elections in five States, including the crucial State of Uttar Pradesh, has drawn in a number of reactions, some valid and others not.
Even though the media has often presented the sub-quota as one for the minorities, or in extreme cases a quota for Muslims by default, thereby providing wind to the wings (…)

- 2012

Pasmanda Movement and the Question of Secularism

Khalid Anis Ansari — 2008-07-30T11:31:00Z

As I write these words the news of the Left withdrawing support from the UPA Government has just started to pour in. Presumably, it has not come as a surprise to anyone. It had been in the offing for quite some time now. But obviously the political temperatures are bound to go up with various political pundits and players rushing to announce their own recipes for the coming parliamentary elections. With the economy on a downward spiral—symbolically made worse in the public imagination by the (…)

- July 26, 2008

Mainstream Weekly

Analysing the ‘OBC-Minority' Sub-Quota

Pasmanda Movement and the Question of Secularism