Explainer: How Supreme Court put in place a 50% quota cap (and why it’s frequently breached)

Vineet Bhalla

· Oct 26, 2023 · 09:00 am

Women’s reservation bill: Sonia Gandhi demands sub-quota for OBCs

Scroll Staff

· Sep 20, 2023 · 01:58 pm

UP government orders notifying 18 OBCs as Scheduled Castes quashed by Allahabad HC

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· Sep 01, 2022 · 12:57 pm

Local body elections: SC tells Maharashtra to submit data on OBCs to state commission

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· Jan 19, 2022 · 08:20 pm

‘Have tea with Dalits, convince them to vote for nationalism’: UP BJP chief tells party workers

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· Nov 15, 2021 · 01:32 pm

Uttar Pradesh government has exploited Dalits, OBCs and Brahmins, alleges Priyanka Gandhi

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· Oct 31, 2021 · 09:09 pm

Reservation: Explain rationale behind Rs 8 lakh income limit for EWS category, SC tells Centre

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· Oct 08, 2021 · 12:49 pm

Is India's 50% cap on reservations reaching the end of its existence?

Shoaib Daniyal

· Aug 23, 2021 · 07:30 am

Interview: ‘Poor upper castes don’t need reservations as their poverty is not due to their caste’

Ajaz Ashraf

· Feb 15, 2019 · 07:00 am

Panel examining sub-categorisation of OBCs in central list gets another extension

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· Nov 22, 2018 · 09:42 pm

BJP’s decision to collect caste data in 2021 census pivots India’s politics firmly towards OBCs

Shoaib Daniyal

· Sep 14, 2018 · 09:00 am

Government to reintroduce bill to give National Commission for Backward Classes more powers

Scroll Staff

· Nov 23, 2017 · 05:27 pm

What justifies an arbitrary 50% cap on reservations – when upper caste numbers are much smaller?

Shoaib Daniyal

· Nov 05, 2017 · 06:30 am

Battleground Gujarat: Why the BJP is going all out to win over Adivasis and OBCs

Dhirendra K Jha

· Sep 05, 2017 · 09:00 am

The big news: Supreme Court says right to privacy is a fundamental right, and nine other top stories

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· Aug 24, 2017 · 08:16 am

A Dalit leader’s demand for upper caste reservations may appear odd – but there's a rationale for it

Amit Ahuja

· Sep 02, 2016 · 05:30 pm

Amid talk of Rajnath Singh as its face in UP, the BJP explodes with OBC and Dalit leaders up in arms

Dhirendra K Jha

· Jun 10, 2016 · 03:54 pm

Quota for Jats: After the violence, the capitulation in Haryana

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Feb 20, 2016 · 09:00 am