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Wow - that is a strong accusation against a nation with laws to prevent just this, with oodles of "quotas" in education and government employment. Do you have any large scale research or evidence to back this?

Au contraire, the largest upliftment from povery, and massive social mobility is what has driven India's 8%+ growth rate for more than 2.5 decades

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Those quotas are very much part of the problem. There are thousands of kids who have to settle for their second, third, fourth choice of college, because someone else needed to get in, even if that someone had scored less (often times laughably less) than them in the qualifying exams. Because you know, quotas

I am sure it all started with good intentions - you set aside a portion of admissions for the historically oppressed people, they come up - they win, society wins and everyone wins at the end. Right? In practice though, it is more used as a weapon by politicians to expertly divide and conquer votes, kinda like redistricting in the US but much worse.

There is a reason for brain drain ...

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