collective term to classify disadvantage
individuals
Backward Classes (OBCs)
Types of Backward classes:
1. Schedule Caste
2. Schedule Tribes
categorize into social and economic status
Scheduled Caste
ethnic groups according to to social,economic, and
ethnic category
Scheduled Tribes
Rights of backward classes as part of Indian rights
Non-Brahman Movement
Dalit leader that fought for the rights of the Backward classes
Bhimano Ramji Ambedkar
Determine criteria for defining the socially educationally backward
classes; Criteria
Mandal Commission; economic,educational,social status
Recommended steps to be taken for the advancement of the socially
and educationally backward classes
Mandal Commission
The government provides _____ that the
backward classes can access
quota/ reservations
Implications and outcomes of the List of Backward Classes
1. Dismiss their identity in the majority
2. Conflict between higher caste and lower caste
3. Affirms the derogatory conditions of the caste structure
4. Disparity between wealthier jatis and general backward classes
5. Upper caste-controlled business vs. caste-influence in politics
eventually improves the lifestyle of the lower caste
by socializing with the upper classes (murag katkat), caste
membership is depicted in the surname
Sanskritization
resort to communal politics (ethnic outbidding), continuously create polarization, contribute to ‘othering’
Identity-based politics
most members come from the backward class (categorized by the West as a terrorist group)
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)