Exclusive Inequality

Exclusive Inequalities: Merit, Caste and Discrimination in Indian Higher Education Today Author(s): Satish Deshpande Reviewed work(s): Source: Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 41, No. 24 (Jun. 17-23, 2006), pp. 2438-2444 Published by: Economic and Political Weekly Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4418346 . Accessed: 02/09/2012 23:48
Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp

.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

.

Economic and Political Weekly is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Economic and Political Weekly.

http://www.jstor.org

and are Basedon thethreepremises effective unreserved for groups thesedifferences for reservation policiesthatthis articlebegan likely to have implications the extent with,is therea case for OBCreservations to which students who enter through in highereducation? limitedavailable reservations The successfully complete their evidence on averageoutcomesof OBCs higherdegrees. Ml relative othergroupssuggestssomedisto relativeto unreserved Hindus, Email:rohini@econdse.org advantage butthesedifferences smallin compariare son to thoseof the SCs andSTs. The large References numberof groups in a complex social Banerjee, Abhijit and Rohini Somanathan:'The Political Economy of Public Goods: Some hierarchy implies a greatdeal of heteroJournalof EvidencefromIndia',forthcoming, geneityamongthe broadcategoriessuch Development Economics. as the OBCs.This, togetherwith the fact and Glenn Loury (1993): 'Will that some communities have, through Coate, Stephen Action Eliminate...