A relook into the Madiga demand for sub-categorisation in the backdrop of the Supreme Court putting the ball in states' court.
Manda Krishna Madiga (Supplied)
The Mala-Madiga conflict in Andhra Pradesh over the sharing of the reservation quota for scheduled castes is by now a classic case study of what happens when problems that are best resolved socially are thrown upon the shoulders of the law because of the intransigence of one side or the recklessness of both sides.