Affirmative Action for Economically Weaker Sections and Upper-Castes in Indian Constitutional Law: Context, Judicial Discourse, and Critique

ISBN-13: 9781032291840 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 184 str.

Asang Wankhede

Opis

This book examines the controversial 103rd Constitutional Amendment to the Indian Constitution that introduced an income and asset ownership-based new constitutional standard for determining backwardness marking a significant shift in the government’s social and public policy. 

Spis treści

List of Cases. List of Statutes. List of other primary legal sources. 1. Introduction PART I: The EWS and Upper-castes reservations in India and their judicial treatment 2. The Legal History of Reservation for SC/STs, OBCs, EWS and Upper-Castes in India 3. Reservation for EWS and Upper-Castes in India 4. The Political context and Creamy Layer 5. Judicial treatment of Reservation for Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) and Upper-Castes in India Part II: The Post-2019 Regime, State Interventions, and Discrimination Law Theory 6. Aims, role and characteristics of substantive equality and affirmative action 7. Protected grounds, protected groups, demarcation of beneficiary classes and the extent of quota limit 8. Treatment of socio-economic/pure-economic disadvantages in discrimination law and Sociological meaning of class 9. Conclusion. Bibliography