Reserved constituencies: procedural success, and yet a political struggle

Reservation, arsenic envisaged by the framers of the Constitution, was chiefly intended arsenic an affirmative enactment measurement to guarantee governmental practice for historically marginalised groups— specifically the Scheduled Castes (SC) and the Scheduled Tribes (ST).

When the Constitution introduced preservation via Article 330 and Article 332, the extremity was not conscionable charity, but to guarantee that those who had been excluded from the societal cloth for centuries had a guaranteed spot astatine the array wherever laws were made.