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Reservation was built to lift India's most marginalised castes. Instead, ten politically dominant communities are pocketing nearly a quarter of every reserved job and seat — while 983 sub-castes get zero. Here's the report the government has kept buried for three years.

The question of whether caste-based reservation in India truly serves the communities it was designed to protect remains largely unspoken in political circles. This silence is no accident. Reservation has become a powerful tool for electoral mobilisation, making any discussion about reform politically risky. Yet, recent data from the Rohini Commission OBC findings and landmark judicial decisions like the Davinder Singh Supreme Court 2024 case reveal deep inequalities within t