Prudent Ancestors
Our prudent ancestors were well aware, about the results of inequality. Country growth will suffer and distance between rich and poor peoples will increase. This difference will create chaos among the country. In a democratic country, we will not grow further without taking the help of low level peoples.
This was well defined in the history of India. Reservations have had a place in India for over a century, much before they were written into the Constitution as a leg up for socially and educationally backward sections. In 1902 Pune’s Chhatrapati Maharaj reserved seats in educational institutions; the Mysore Maharaja and the states of Madras and Travancore too ensured representation for the very backward in all senses of the term
because of highly stratified social structures and the practice of “untouchability” that had left large sections of the population backward for centuries.
They recognised that it was only by actively trying to lift up these sections by offering seats in educational institutions and in employment, that some kind of level playing field could be established.
