00978pab a2200157 454500 180718b2006 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Somanathan, Rohini Assumptions and arithmetic of caste-based reservations 2006 p.2436-438. 17 Jun There is reason to be cautious in the use of affirmative action policies to achieve equality in access to higher education. There appears to be considerable heterogeneity within the broad social groupings that are currently used and differences in the extent to which groups that were traditionally disadvantaged have managed to extract benefits from the state. Affirmative action policies that target broad social groups are not going to act as powerful tools of social justice - too many of the disadvantaged will be excluded in favour of the more privileged. - Reproduced. Backward classes Economic and Political Weekly 69812 69812 69812 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 41, Issue no: 24 AR70268 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR