The history of reservation is considerably older and more complicated than its familiar association with Ambedkar and the Constitution. It involves social hierarchy, colonial institutional change, regional political competition, reform movements and constitutional negotiation.
Leftists have been trying for a long time to claim that the tribals of India are ‘not Hindu’. This is not a modern phenomenon. This is a systematic social engineering that was codified and worked into a brilliantly designed machine by the British rulers of India in the 1800s.
Ironically, Rehmat Ali Khan, who so vehemently vouched for a separate Muslim nation which was supposed to be the dreamland of the Muslims of British India, could not get a piece of land in that Muslim dreamland even for his grave.
After narrating how the Chola sceptre Sengol was used as a symbol of power from British to India, The Hindu now questions the same claims to attack the govt