11-10-2006, 12:36 AM
Reservations were introduced in India as an atonement by the hindu society for the bad treatment of disadvantaged castes. That was the reason the reservations were not extended to muslims or christians, as they supposedly had no need for such an atonement.
Nowadays, surrepticiously a rationale is being embedded in peoples' minds that reservations have something to do with 'disadvantaged minority groupings'. Then all the statistics showing inferior human development indices for muslim societies is used as a justification for extending the reservations to muslims.
We need to make sure that this surrepticious re-rationalizing is not permitted.
If hindu society, including financially poor upper castes had to suffer due to reservations as an 'atonement' for past sins, then the same rationale must be applied for say muslims.
Muslims as a society have a lot to atone for, just as supposedly upper caste hindus had to, considering how non-muslims were treated as second class citizens for centuries under muslim rule.
If reservations involving muslims have to occur, then following the 'atonement' principle, there should be negative-reservation for muslims rather than positive reservations.
Hindus can't always be at the receiving end on the topic of 'atoning for past sins'. Let other communties also carry their cross.
Nowadays, surrepticiously a rationale is being embedded in peoples' minds that reservations have something to do with 'disadvantaged minority groupings'. Then all the statistics showing inferior human development indices for muslim societies is used as a justification for extending the reservations to muslims.
We need to make sure that this surrepticious re-rationalizing is not permitted.
If hindu society, including financially poor upper castes had to suffer due to reservations as an 'atonement' for past sins, then the same rationale must be applied for say muslims.
Muslims as a society have a lot to atone for, just as supposedly upper caste hindus had to, considering how non-muslims were treated as second class citizens for centuries under muslim rule.
If reservations involving muslims have to occur, then following the 'atonement' principle, there should be negative-reservation for muslims rather than positive reservations.
Hindus can't always be at the receiving end on the topic of 'atoning for past sins'. Let other communties also carry their cross.