ABSTRACT
This chapter, ‘Reimagining Reservation’, revisits the policy of reservation and the problem of “backwardness” in the light of growing reservation demands made by various dominant caste groups. It seeks to understand the question of reservation with the issue of Dalit representation not just in terms of equality of educational access but also points at the necessity of equality of educational access, process, and outcome. It thus discusses how various political forces generate new forms of domination and exclusion in the education system that sustain and nurture the caste-stratified ideology both covertly and overtly.
