Falling Over Backwards Quotes

“Leaders of the new, independent India were clear and determined: caste must be eliminated from official policies and institutions. At the first census conference after Independence, Sardar Patel, with his usual directness, told the delegates and census officials, ‘Formerly there used to be elaborate caste tables which were required in India partly to satisfy the theory that it was a caste-ridden country, and partly to meet the needs of administrative measures dependent upon caste division. In the forthcoming Census this will no longer be a prominent feature,’ and instead the census would focus on basic economic data.6”
― Arun Shourie, Falling Over Backwards: An Essay Against Reservation And Against Judicial Populism