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The 'Schedules' listing the castes and tribes recognised as deserving of special treatment because of the massive discrimination practiced against them were drawn up in 1935, by the British Indian government.

Post-independence, which was the most important initiative taken by the government to compensate for this discrimination? Write briefly about it.

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Reservation is not a poverty-alleviation scheme; rather, it is a structural mechanism of compensatory justice designed to distribute power and representation to communities historically excluded from the public sphere.
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