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100			_aChaudhury, Pradipta
245			_aThe 'creamy layer': political economy of reservations
260			_c2004
300			_ap.1989-991.
362			_a15 May
520			_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.
650			_aBackward classes - India
650			_aBackward classes
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
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