The book deals with the issue of under-representation of the socio-economically deprived and backward castes and classes in the spheres of education, employment, administration, commerce and political institutions and the resultant policies of the Government to appoint commissions to identify the various categories of such people, their recommendations and policies adopted by the Governments for reservations for them in these areas in proportion to their respective shares in the population. It deals with the build up specifically of organizations of Other Backward Classes and political mobilization of the people in the region since Independence in the struggle for their interest.