Bangalore: Reservation has been a favorite topic of even people in South India because reservations have taken deep roots in this part of India. As there was opposition in the earlier stages, the subject attracted more and more research, deeper debates and great publicity. Reservations have become a way of life and opponents are shunned and laughed at. What the Mandal Commission recommended was already in practice in Southern States. Therefore, South Indians by and large are not aware of the failures, sufferings and mischiefs of the North Indian upper castes/ Aryans/Hindus.
This small but exhaustive book, Indian Polity and Reservations, covers the salient features of the successes and failures in all the States on the subject of reservations. This document helps the South Indian stalwarts to know about the plight of their North Indian brothers and help them and also shows the way to the North Indian reservation- seekers to find out facts, ways and means, and correct strategies. It helps to build the required bridge between North and South. It also reminds us the fact that this lack of rapport between North. and South helped the Hindu nazis in enjoying their cake and eating it too. There is much to learn from South Indian stalwarts on this front. We hope that at least the North Indian reservation-seekers will shed their North Indian superiority complex and seek guidance from their South Indian brothers. This book should open their eyes.
