> However, in case of South Asia/India, the argument is positive discrimination now to correct for negative discrimination in the past. I don't think India mak

> However, in case of South Asia/India, the argument is positive discrimination now to correct for negative discrimination in the past. I don't think India makes this "penance for primordial sins" argument. There's a current high correlation between somebody's caste and somebody's socio-economic status which is reservation is supposed to solve. It has loopholes surely and in some parts of the country, completely useless. But overall it is effective in increasing social mobility and social cohesion.