An Upper Hand: A look at the incomes of India's upper castes
First is the BJP’s promise to implement a 10% quota for the poor and second is the Samajwadi Party’s promise to impose an extra 2% tax on the richest, who, it says, are uniformly upper caste.
This election season, there have been two promises linked to the incomes of upper castes. First is the BJP’s promise to implement a 10% quota for the poor among the “non-reserved”, strengthening the idea that the economically weaker among the upper castes need support, and the second is the Samajwadi Party’s promise to impose an extra 2% tax on the richest, who, it says, are uniformly upper caste.
So what do the incomes of India’s upper castes actually look like?
Source: A 2018 study by Nitin Kumar Bharti of Paris School of Economics based on National Family Health Survey and India Human Development Survey data
Source: National Family Health Survey 2005-06 % of men who are salaried/professionals
