00649pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002400040245003800064260000900102300001600111362001100127520032200138650002100460773003400481180718b2006   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMehta, Pratap Bhanu  aDemocracy, disagreement and merit  c2006  ap.2425-427.  a17 Jun  aAs this juncture, even before we discuss what effective access policies should look like, we need to clear some space and ask: How will be handle disagreement in this domain? For fundamentally, the reservations debate has become a debate about the character of democracy, in more ways than we recognise. - Reproduced.  aBackward classes  aEconomic and Political Weekly