Caste quota riot in India

[TheWorldNewsOrg]

According to Indian Police, at least one person is killed and up to 20 people injured during, what became violent, protests by the Jat agricultural community in Rohtak, India, for a 10 percent increase in the number of their caste quota (affirmative action).

[TheWorldNewsOrg]

Thousands of soldiers have been deployed to Haryana state in northern India where protesters have been killed in riots.Jats - a traditionally rural community of farmers - are demanding more government jobs and places in state-run universities.They complain of discrimination because of India's caste system, not because they're from a lower caste but from a higher one.The Jat say they are being shut out because of a quota system that gives more opportunities to Indians from lower castes.Why are they demanding more opportunities? And what are the roots of the caste system?Presenter: Mike HannaGuests:Jaspal Singh - professor of political science at Indira Gandhi National Open UniversityDipankar Gupta - sociologist and author of Interrogating Caste: Understanding Hierarchy and Difference in Indian SocietyDiego Maiorano - specialist on poverty and inequality in India and fellow at the University of Nottingham