Terms like masterstroke are a meme at this point. But I can easily see the divide and rule angle of (cast politics) here. I might be wrong but If I was in leaderjis position and had no way of extinguishing this reservation meme. The next best course of action would be to reduce its potency.
heh, there was some pundit uncle, friend of my father, who's gotten multiple aacharya level upaadhis across vidhyapeeths, what he used to say before his death regd non-vegetarianism was that, a lot of brahmins historically lived outside the towns-cities in agro-pastoral ways, so it's not possible that they all were of saatvik types, then kashmiri pundits who lived in pahad where kheti isn't sufficiently possible so they too resorted to sarvahaari things and so on, then what maithils believe is that kind of supermacist thing - "once you're born a brahmin, everything's allowed" including eating meat, their notion of calling fishes as 'jal ka phal' over some scripture things on samudra-manthan incident...
Not sure about this being a recent thing coz I distinctly recall reading a sociological paper on the dietary habits of certain caste groups in mediaeval North & East India long ago & the Bhumihars were mentioned as war like , into jagirdari & agriculture as well as comprising of both vegetarians & non vegetarians as far as their diets went where obviously the former were temple priests.
Didn't get this SS ??
BJP is very marginal party in Punjab. It was going to loose it either way. The people their were looking to break free from the shackles of few families. These few families had bipartisan familial ties. So, Congress or SAD both were practically similar. BJP was still limited to Hindu voters. So, It was AAP who was primed for the win. People forget Punjab was the only state to send AAP MPs in LS. Just like Delhi AAP will be a stepping stone for BJP in Punjab.
Even after 1857 rebellion babhans made up significant portion of British army. We were even more numerous before the rebellion.
I have heard that bong brahmins indeed consider fish as "vegetarian".
But the numbers mentioned there are ridiculous . Are they supposed to be the number of troops hired by the British or the catchment of all martial castes ? Besides in which world do Rajputs exceed the Jats in sheer numbers ?
i was once persuaded by certain pisslamic "friend" of mine during college (not that hafeez guy, for most parts he respected my opinions) that 'andaa is vegetarian *ahem* since it's practically a failed period of a murgi'
- and that if you don't have any issue with milk of cattle, what's problem with having a failed period of murgi too 
- i.e. using scientific reasoning card on me (it's definition of something called ovo-vegetarianism)
Eh mine wasn't a scientific defense of fish eating by bong brahmins. In the end the bong will eat fish cause of the massive cultural influence of it and will reach of any scriptural defence of this stance.i was once persuaded by certain pisslamic "friend" of mine during college (not that hafeez guy, for most parts he respected my opinions) that 'andaa is vegetarian *ahem* since it's practically a failed period of a murgi'
i simply retorted that cows are domesticated animals and they have tendencies to go super anxious and even can fall ill after rearing or coming-of-age if they aren't milked regularly, and gau-paalan is far less "violent" act than raising murgis - where you snatch a murgi's first fertilised eggs away so she goes depressed and ends up giving more eggs, that you also take away and the cycle repeats until she physically can't, and the way they live in confined cages and fed upto brim and how male chicks are basically thrown to garbage and all...so don't bother teaching me that kind of scientific things
seeing he can't convince me he never brought this topic to me again
(you can say i overall played roti-beti ka vyavhaar card on him in preventive ways)
Govt job holders don't even make 3% of the population. It would be a fucked up shit if they force these shits in private.
I have to refer to original sources to know exactly what this data means.
could be since Jats are limited to three states and Rajput are present across all states in Northern India up to vindhaya ranges.
What I wanted to imply is that Bhumihars are recognized as a separate group yet overlap somehow with brahmins.
I hope they won't otherwise the subsequent caste riots that could emerge will make the Mandal reservation protests look like a society RWA meeting.
Impossible . Since this isn't a religious enumeration as the Awans & Meos are mentioned too , both of whom are exclusively Muslim without that detail added , I assume the classification was religion agnostic.
Possible.
Possible.
Yes that's how caste stratified . Previously the situation was much more fluid for non Brahmins. It's the British who set firm boundaries for castes & created new categories & sub categories.
True. And we're reaping the curse of it till date. Neither did the centre then make any attempt to conduct some deep study into the matter & check for the many discrepancies which crept into the system nor could they be bothered to remedy it.
It won't ever happen. I'm sure of that Lol
Just announce 80 percent hindu reservation in public and private sector, it will better than j*ati based reservation anyways.
