Book on Reservation

Preface-Dr.T.Marx

A spectre is haunting India- the spectre of reservation. All powers of the Hindu society have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: upper caste students and politicians, private industrialists, educationists, Brahmins and the media.

Discrimination is an affront to humanity and an assault on the concept of human rights. It systematically denies groups of people their human rights just because of who they are or what they believe.

After decades of assiduous attempts on the part of the ruling upper caste elite to hoodwink the world into believing; reservation will divide Indian society and will dilute the standards, writing this small book to dispel certain myths about reservation- for social justice. This is neither a research-based volume nor exhaustive study but a collection and consolidation of valid arguments to dispel the misconstrued and misleading arguments against reservation put forth by the Brahmins and caste Hindus.

Around the world, persecuted communities have organized themselves to defend their rights. Therefore it has become the task of lovers of social justice, democracy and secularism in India to unequivocally support the right of the SC/ST/OBC/ minorities t determination by way of reservation.  A vocal and vibrant mo should emerge throughout India to break the conspiracy of s surrounding   discrimination   and   violence against SC/ST/OBC/Minorities. In the struggle for the effective implement of reservations, we "have nothing to lose but our chains" but we have world to win".

I shall feel pride, if this petty contribution would at least be able create awareness among academics, social activists and secularist. If this book achieves this much, I would feel privileged to have made a  vital effort for a noble cause.

Foreword by

Dr.S.Ravindranathan, M.A.,Ph.D.,

Prof & Head,

Department Of English,

Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli.

Caste, in India, is neither divinely ordained nor it is a curse. It is  well-determined, well-conceived fraud by a few intelligent people on the majority of the rest of the people. Indians, again easily succumb to theories fate, luck, Karma, and many such concepts which cancel individual efforts and rights.

Quest for rights for reservation and quest for women - both meet e same predicament in the Indian scenario. Instead of ascertaining their rights, both the women and the suppressed people plead for a few concessions, which are denied promptly. Both Ambedkar and Periyar fought for social justice and because of the efforts of these people, social justice, at least to some extend, became a possibility.

What is important is that reservation is NOT a concession but undoing the injustice meted out to generations of people in the past. I am happy that at least a small section of the youth are aware of these sociological phenomena.

Dr.T.Marx is also a dreamer-his collection of poems is an evidence-but his feet are firmly rooted on the earth and this book on reservation is an ample evidence of this factor.

Reservation has been handled and mishandled by the Indian politicians in so many ways killing the spirit behind the ideology. Dr. T. Marx has dispelled the conceptions by setting right the ideology behind reservation. My only wish is that the youth of India should read this book and be benefited.