Indeed, nowadays political parties dangle the carrot of reservations to ever more castes, and even promise to extend the policy to admissions into elite educational institutions and the private sector.

Business monopoly in some sectors causes higher profit bookings and further raising of prices.

But boosters of caste politics claim that it is not economic deprivation but the social backwardness from which these castes have historically suffered that makes caste reservations necessary.

Every now and then, particularly before elections, caste groups demand to be placed on the list of other backwards classes (OBC s), in order to benefit from these reservations.

Caste based reservations (reserved places) in education and government employment are supposed to benefit India s most deprived, but in reality they have hardened, rather than eroded, India s ancient system of discrimination.

In the past hour

I retired last year.

He died one year ago.

A fire broke out last night.

A fire broke out last night.

I slept very well last night.

How did you sleep last night?

How did you sleep last night?

Past and Present Strategies

Or it was last year.

I came to Japan last year.

I finished reading the book last night.

What did you do last vacation?

Let's forget about what happened last night.

Do you remember what you did last Friday?

Do you remember what you did last Friday?

Last night, he told me everything.

Last night, she told me everything.

We went to London last year.

Hence, caste has not been an indicator of material deprivation, even during the early decades of the twentieth century. But boosters of caste politics claim that it is not economic deprivation but the social backwardness from which these castes have historically suffered that makes caste reservations necessary.

Some go so far as to argue that the recent rise of the lower castes in northern Indian politics and the implementation of reservations by the central government amount to a silent revolution, and that the politics of caste is secular and a bulwark against religious sectarianism.

So, if you've been gone, this is the easy CliffsNotes on what's happened in the economy. Okay?

The protesters action last night was a reaction to the police clearance of the barricades in major sit in sites in the past few days.

I've been following them for the last three months.

There was a lot of snow last year.

Last weekend was boring for me.

Let's forget last night ever happened.

Did you forget to lock the door last night?

Remember what happened last year.

Screenshot from iPhone.

I like to talk about the good old days.

In the past year, we have faced tremendous challenges.

Much has been achieved over the past 60 years.

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They died of AIDS last year.

She called me up very late last night.

Tom started learning French last year.

Tom didn't show up at the party last night.

I wrote a song about what happened here last year.

Tom lost three million dollars last year.