Topic
Reservation
Who is counted as backward in India, which commission decided it, and what the courts did about it. Read from the commission reports and the judgments themselves rather than from the reporting of them.
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Reservation
Maratha reservation explained: 37.28% below the poverty line, and the 50% ceiling
A community that has given Maharashtra thirteen of its nineteen chief ministers has spent forty-six years asking to be classified as backward. Its own government's commission found 85 per cent of Maratha families living on under Rs 25,000 a year. Both claims come from the same court judgments.
- 13 of 19
- Maharashtra chief ministers from the Maratha community
- 76.86%
- Maratha families in agriculture or farm labour, per the state commission
- 37.28%
- Below the poverty line, against a state average of 24.2%
- 50%
- The reservation ceiling the quota crossed, fixed in 1992
11 September 2026 · 16 min read · 23 documents