The heralds are going through the city telling the people.

Reforms need to acknowledge the mindsets of people and the incentive structures that govern their behavior.

Agitators for reform will continue to push. Regime loyalists will continue to push back.

Indeed, one of the rights for which suffragists fought was the right to be convicted of one s own crimes.

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.

Proponents of this approach to preferential treatment argued that its cost would be marginal, given the expected annual gain (estimated at 2.9 billion) for LDCs in relevant markets.

Most poignantly, during this same period proponents of the two major antagonistic dogmas and ideologies of this century have waged a major struggle in our region for recognition and domination.

Would politicians, with their perpetual fascination with independence, attempt to eliminate dependence one commodity at a time? Put another way, would the cause of energy independence seek to reverse globalization?

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.