00870pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002400040245005800064260000900122300001600131362001100147520048200158650002900640650002100669773003400690180718b2004   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aChaudhury, Pradipta  aThe 'creamy layer': political economy of reservations  c2004  ap.1989-991.  a15 May  aSeveral times in post-independence India, questions have been raised on reservations and whether its true benefits have percolated to sections that really need them. The reality is that preservations have served essentially as tools to absorb privileged sections of the lower castes into the ruling classes. Moreover, the politics of caste 'identity' also founded on reservations, has helped push real economic problems facing the poor away from the centre stage. - Reproduced.  aBackward classes - India  aBackward classes  aEconomic and Political Weekly