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Sprawled in the middle of a university courtyard under a large tent, some 50 students at the hyper-competitive All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) are doing what any doctor would tell them not to - starving themselves. Now on the sixth day of an indefinite hunger strike, their hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Affirmative Action War | 5/25/2006 | See Source »

"Modern India should be built on merit, not caste," says Dr. Sudip Sen, 34, a Ph.D. student in biochemistry at AIIMS. "What's next - are we going to let a slow runner represent India in the Olympics? No, we are going to send our best runner out for the 100...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Affirmative Action War | 5/25/2006 | See Source »

Unlike race or class, caste is not something that can be read in the color of one's skin or in the cut of one's clothes. Caste is written in a far more nuanced language of family name, livelihood, origin and identity politics; yet it is an issue that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Affirmative Action War | 5/25/2006 | See Source »

But even some people who theoretically would benefit from such quotas oppose them on principle. "I came here under my own merit," says Deepika Gupta, 18, a first-year student at AIIMS and member of a lower caste herself. "I don't want anyone thinking I'm here because of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Affirmative Action War | 5/25/2006 | See Source »

The Ruling Caste

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BookEnds: When India Was Britain’s ‘Jewel’ | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

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