Chapter: On EqualityWrite a report on each the following1.India is becoming more equal with time.2.Arguments For and Against Reservations3.The Attitudes of Indians towards Inter-Caste Marriages4.Complete equality for all is impossible.5.Arguments For and Against Lowering the Voting Age to 166.Only well-educated people should be allowed to vote.7.Inequalities in Developed versus in Developing Countries
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In newly independent India, there was a resolve to acknowledge and reverse the country’s history of entrenched inequalities, and to build on its strength of effortless diversity. But this resolve has weakened greatly in recent decades. As India made a new tryst with the market, the number of people relegated to the margins of our society has also grown dramatically. The convergence of the economics of inequality and the politics of majoritarianism has made India a more divided and unequal society than at any other time in its recent history.
In my new book, I reflect on what worries me most about contemporary India. This is not so much the objective realities of hugely mounting inequalities in recent decades, but the normative acceptance by persons of privilege that these inequalities are inevitable, even legitimate. Likewise, I worry about the manner in which prejudice, targeting Muslims but also other minorities, is normalised in the middle-classes in a way that would have been unthinkable in the years of my growing up