We recently blogged how India faces some unique challenges to increasing teacher attendance; namely, leopard incursions. Obviously we were (mostly) joking, but India is making news again in a way that seems decidedly unique to it.
While there is a big literature about the pros and cons of affirmative action, I don’t think many researchers (outside of India that is) have considered the events that the NY Times chronicled yesterday.
Here’s some background:
“Almost half of government jobs and university seats in the country are reserved for members of special groups. India’s Constitution guarantees equality to all, but it also enshrines caste-based affirmative action for the lowest social group, the Dalits, known in legal terms as scheduled castes, and for indigenous forest-dwellers, known as scheduled tribes. In time, the government created a third group, the Other Backward Classes.”
This has enraged other castes that now want to also be considered…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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