MISINTERPRETATION OF THE “OPEN” CATEGORY AS NOT OPEN IN THE REALISTIC SENSE WITH CONTEXT TO SOCIAL RESERVATION SYSTEM IN INDIA

This paper an interdisciplinary project on “Critical Study of Social Reservation Policy with Special Reference to Reservation in Services and Education in Maharashtra” with regards to education and status of employment of Dalits Though the emphasis is on Social Reservation, this study inquires into the demands of social reservation of Dalits. Critics have claimed that though sixty years have passed with the implementation of social reservation, expected results with regards changes in social, political and economical life of Dalits have been not accrued in India. It is the same case with Maharashtra. We are dealing here with the need of the study of reservation in India. This paper deals with reservation and the making of Indian citizenship: Ambedkar„s critique of Gandhi in his What the Congress and Gandhi have done for the Untouchables. This part analyzes the problematic of reservation with Ambedkar„s program of the annihilation of caste.