‘If paying collective reparations for collective guilt is appropriate, then how about India “atoning” for thousands of years of its caste system?’ senior policy analyst Shikha Dalmia asked in her column for Time magazine. The difference between the British and the Indian upper-caste establishment, Dalmia noted, was that the British were at least willing to reflect on their history. The upper castes, be it during the Mandal Commission protests, the 2006 anti-reservation protests or the private sector’s protest against reservation can’t even stand the idea of compensation for the discrimination
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