Karnataka’s broken political economy | Number Theory

The first part of this series explained why the Siddaramaiah government’s plan to re-stratify reservations in the state is a risky political strategy that aims to resurrect the AHNDA coalition which Devraj Urs perfected in the 1970s. The second part of this series will argue that this politically risky move might have been motivated by the state’s broken political economy which has led to entrenched inequality.