Scheduled castes in Karnataka
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Schedule Castes population in Karnataka is estimated at 10.9 million as per 2011 census of India, accoounting for about 17.15% of total state population. The Government of Karnataka has listed 101 communities and their sub-castes as Schedule Castes in the state. The Scheduled Castes in Karnataka are divided into 3 categories with Group A, B and C, having internal reservations.
Sub-classification
The issue of the sub-classification of the Scheduled Castes in Karnataka was raised in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly from the late 1980s. The matter came into hype again in the 2010s, when the BJP Karnataka politician C. Narayanaswamy who himself was a Dalit raised the issue of internal reservation in Scheduled Castes (SC) community through sub-classification of the communities. There had been conflict of interest between the SC communities regarding subclassification, particularly among the left-side and right-side Dalits communities. The Left-side Dalit includes mainly Madigas and other leatherworker castes, while the Right-side one includes Holeya and Chalavadi who were agriculturalist labourers arguing that Right-side communities were better off than left-side ones.
In 2025, the Government of Karnataka announced for the subclassification of the Scheduled Castes communities in three categories A, B and C on the basis of Right-side, Left-side and Touchable SCs with internal reservation through THE KARNATAKA SCHEDULED CASTES (SUB-CLASSIFICATON) BILL, 2025.
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