Editing Reverse discrimination (section)

=== India ===
In India, in higher education institutions and in employment by Government, around 49.5% seats are reserved for members of socially disadvantaged castes.<ref name="Neelakantan 2009">{{cite news |last1=Neelakantan |first1=Shailaja |title=India's Education Minister Says Foreign Universities Will Have to Observe Quota Law |url=http://www.chronicle.com/article/indias-education-minister/47891 |work=The Chronicle of Higher Education |date=16 July 2009 |archive-date=13 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213094018/http://www.chronicle.com/article/indias-education-minister/47891 |url-status=live |url-access=limited}}</ref> Reserved category candidates can select a position from the Open 40% also.

In [[India]], the term is often used by citizens protesting against [[reservation in India]]. <ref name="Nesiah 1997">{{cite book |last1=Nesiah |first1=Devanesan |title=Discrimination with reason? : the policy of reservations in the United States, India, and Malaysia |date=1997 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Delhi |isbn=0-1956-3983-9}}{{Page needed|date=June 2022}}</ref><ref name="Excess reservation">{{cite news |author=<!--anonymous author, no byline--> |url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/24/stories/2006102401031300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061109011448/http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/24/stories/2006102401031300.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 November 2006 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=24 October 2006 |title=Excess reservation will cause reverse discrimination, cautions Supreme Court}}</ref><ref name="Greenawalt 1983">{{cite book |last1=Greenawalt |first1=Kent |title=Discrimination and reverse discrimination |date=1983 |publisher=Knopf |location=New York |isbn=0-394-33577-5 |edition=1st}}{{Page needed|date=June 2022}}</ref>