The Real Indian IQ

[G.Subramaniam]

The arguments in the Dorairajan case in the Madras High Court, 1951, bring this out very clearly. The court is told that if the Communal GO had not existed and selection to the roughly 400 seats in government engineering colleges were made solely on “merit”, i e, in terms of a ranking based on the marks obtained in the qualifying examination, then brahmins would have obtained 249 seats instead of the 77 they were allotted under their communal quota. The court sees this as clear evidence of injustice against brahmins, with no attempt to reflect on how a republic committed to ending caste inequalities ought to deal with a situation where a historically privileged community numbering 3% of the population would corner 62% of the seats in a state-subsidised engineering college