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OBC reservations

  • ‘Backward communities over 50% of population’: Madhya Pradesh defends OBC quota increase in court

    ‘Backward communities over 50% of population’: Madhya Pradesh defends OBC quota increase in court

    Scroll Staff
    · Oct 02, 2025 · 08:35 pm
  • Patna High Court strikes down Bihar law raising caste-based reservations to 65%

    Patna High Court strikes down Bihar law raising caste-based reservations to 65%

    Scroll Staff
    · Jun 20, 2024 · 03:29 pm
  • Rajasthan’s BJP government to review reservations given to Muslims under OBC category

    Rajasthan’s BJP government to review reservations given to Muslims under OBC category

    Scroll Staff
    · May 26, 2024 · 01:08 pm
  • Will the communalisation of OBC reservations help the BJP in Bengal?

    Will the communalisation of OBC reservations help the BJP in Bengal?

    Shoaib Daniyal
    · Mar 22, 2021 · 06:30 am
  • Bengal’s universities are progressive bastions – so what explains resistance to OBC reservations?

    Bengal’s universities are progressive bastions – so what explains resistance to OBC reservations?

    Adil Hossain
    · Sep 06, 2020 · 09:00 am
  • As BJP MP mounts ‘creamy layer’ revolt against his party, what is Modi government thinking?

    As BJP MP mounts ‘creamy layer’ revolt against his party, what is Modi government thinking?

    Shoaib Daniyal
    · Jul 25, 2020 · 06:30 am
  • Sonia Gandhi writes to PM Modi against lack of OBC reservations in medical colleges run by states

    Sonia Gandhi writes to PM Modi against lack of OBC reservations in medical colleges run by states

    Scroll Staff
    · Jul 03, 2020 · 07:25 pm
  • Why sub-categorisation of OBCs will prompt their leaders to hit out at the upper castes

    Why sub-categorisation of OBCs will prompt their leaders to hit out at the upper castes

    Ajaz Ashraf
    · Sep 01, 2017 · 08:00 am
  • Why the Brahmins of Uttar Pradesh are back in the reckoning – not as king but king-makers

    Why the Brahmins of Uttar Pradesh are back in the reckoning – not as king but king-makers

    Ajaz Ashraf
    · Sep 01, 2016 · 09:00 am