I recently started reading 'India After Gandhi'.
It speaks about the reservation for SC/ST that are currently prevalent in India.
The claim was that in 1000s of years of oppression the SC/STs have been made so weak that they cant easly mingle with the society .So it was decided that the Government will provide positive preferential treatment in allotment of jobs and access to higher education, as a means to accelerate the integration of the SCs and STs with mainstream society.
So the question that comes to mind is that whether the domicile Maharashtrian (this includes the Lungis , the Pagdis and all the other non "son of the soil" people) is so lame that he cant compete with the Cowherds that he is being protected from .
