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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: net.nlang.india
Subject: quotas based on caste
Message-ID: <188@sbcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 09:07:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 29 09:07:23 1985
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Organization: Computer Science Dept, SUNY@Stony Brook
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> The army was called to the western city of Ahmedabad today to quell
> rioting ...

>     The rioting grew out of student protests against increases in
> government job and college admission quotas for backward classes ...

I've always been uncomfortable about quotas based on ancestry.  I do believe
that if quotas were to be necessary at all -- and I can't see a defensible
need for them beyond college/university admissions -- they should be based
on economic status rather than caste.  Any comments?
-- 
Saumya Debray
SUNY at Stony Brook

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