• Shumaila
• Mohmad Saleem Jahangir

Reservation is a policy to overcome the multiple deprivations of the marginalized social groups and to provide protection against exclusion and discrimination by encouraging their effective participation in the economic, social, and political processes of the society (Thorat and Senapati, 2006). But the policy of reservation has evoked considerable controversy in recent times. On one hand, the policy is consistent with equalitarianism and social justice. On the other hand, it is a policy that allows the creamy layer to take advantage of the reservation and benefit unduly while depriving fellows of their own community. Thus, the paper examines the theoretical orientation associated with Pierre Bourdieu to have an inbuilt understanding of the practice of reservations, what it is and why we need to care about it. In Bourdieu’s notion of social and cultural capital, the opportunities of life chances that are available to some but not to others act as an agency for the reproduction of both inequality and social classes in the society.

Reservation policy, cultural capital, social capital, Exclusion

"Reservation Policy for the excluded: Situating Pierre Bourdieu", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no.d871-d877, September-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2109397.pdf

"Reservation Policy for the excluded: Situating Pierre Bourdieu", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 9, page no. ppd871-d877, September-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2109397.pdf