Reservation policy in Tamil Nadu

Reservation policy in Tamil Nadu is a system of affirmative action that provides historically disadvantaged groups representation in education and employment.

[1] Tamil Nadu has long struggled for equal educational opportunities and government jobs dating back to the pre-independence period.

Nair established the South Indian Liberal Federation, popularly known as the Justice Party in 1916 to advocate for non-Brahmins in government workforce in the Madras Presidency.

[3][4] Chief Minister of Madras Presidency, Akaram Subbaroyalu Reddy, acted in 1921 with a Government Order setting up reservation.

The social reformer Periyar E. V. Ramasamy who was a member of the Congress at the time, pushed his party to endorse reservation.

[2] He resigned after the party declined, and rallied all over Tamil Nadu to gain support for the Government Order's implementation.

[6] Reservation in Tamil Nadu the Communal government order was brought into effect by the Chief minister of the Madras Presidency.

The Commission further proposed imposing certain economic requirements to exclude the Creamy layer from gaining all advantages of reservation.

[12] The Supreme Court ordered the government to form a commission to investigate the real state of backward classes in Tamil Nadu.

[1] In 1987, Vanniar Sangam, the Parent Body of Pattali Makkal Katchi, conducted statewide road blockades, vandalized public property, committed arson on Dalit settlements and fell trees seeking 20% reservations in state government and 2 percent reservations in the federal government for the Vanniyar Caste.

[14] In 1990, the DMK government under Karunanidhi then divided reservation for SC and ST based on the decision of the Madras High Court.

She also demanded that the Tamil Nadu government's Act be placed in the Constitution's Ninth Schedule, ensuring that it cannot be contested in any court.

[9] In 1994, an Advocate K. M. Vijayan was viciously assaulted and maimed on his way to New Delhi to file a complaint in the Supreme Court challenging the addition of 69 percent reservation in the 9th Schedule.