For example, some Muslim communities – many of them are what we call "backwards" [per the "Other Backward Classes" classification].
In time, the government created a third group, the Other Backward Classes.
Discrimination also exists within the Dalit communities and Other Backward Classes, known as O.B.C.
Spots are also reserved for another category of socially and economically backward groups, knows as "Other Backward Classes".
In India 60% of the population are eligible for privileges as members of scheduled castes, tribes or "other backward classes".
At the same time, the officially designated "Other Backward Classes" (other social and tribal groups traditionally excluded) also began to claim their rights under the constitution.
In the north east, home to so-called "backward classes", over 80% of government jobs come under the quota system, far more than the initial target of 50%.
Now an additional 27percentt of seats must go for a group the bureaucracy calls "other backward classes," or O.B.C.'s.
Among the front-runners are Siddaramaiah, a widely respected local strongman from the backward classes, who is the party's only mass leader.
It is opposed, however, by the Samajwadi Party, which represents another group of socially and economically disadvantaged, known as the "other backward classes".
Their caste, traditionally tasked with crushing oil seeds, stood some rungs above the untouchables, belonging instead to the bureaucratic category of "Other Backward Classes".
