{"id":46592,"date":"2019-01-22T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=46592"},"modified":"2019-01-20T13:21:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T18:21:21","slug":"ending-indias-longstanding-caste-system-privileges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/22\/ending-indias-longstanding-caste-system-privileges\/","title":{"rendered":"Ending India&#8217;s longstanding caste system privileges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Continental Telegraph<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.continentaltelegraph.com\/world\/asia\/india\/how-india-is-abolishing-the-reservation-and-backward-castes-system\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Worstall<\/a> outlines the political change that might end up undermining the caste system to a large degree:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/India-as-seen-by.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/India-as-seen-by.jpg\" alt=\"India as seen by a cool Bangalorean\" width=\"621\" height=\"720\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/India-as-seen-by.jpg 621w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/India-as-seen-by-129x150.jpg 129w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/India-as-seen-by-480x556.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>India has long had a series of reservations and quotas for varied classes. Dalits \u2013 formerly the untouchables \u2013 have long had privileges in access to university and government jobs for example. Over time, as such political systems do, the list of those classes privileged has grown.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously enough, as such political systems do work, a major cause of unrest has been further classes, castes and groupings demanding that they be added to the list of groups that receive such privileges. And given electoral cycles that list has grown. The cynic will not be surprised to find that the surest method of a group being added to the list is to be the swing vote in a hotly contested election. We\u2019re not talking about purity of motive here.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, such a system eats away at the nation \u2013 we get into that communal division of the spoils rather than the lovely capitalist and free market game of increasing the spoils to be argued over. Which leaves us with a certain problem, leaves India with a certain problem.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If everyone\u2019s covered by a reservation, if all are so privileged, then sure, we\u2019ve an inefficient system still but we have also effectively abolished the value of having a reservation, a privilege. Thus the solution, the end game. So devalue the privilege as to make it effectively not exist by extending it to everyone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Continental Telegraph, Tim Worstall outlines the political change that might end up undermining the caste system to a large degree: India has long had a series of reservations and quotas for varied classes. Dalits \u2013 formerly the untouchables \u2013 have long had privileges in access to university and government jobs for example. 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