Brahmins held nearly half of top judicial and bureaucratic posts through 2000

Evidence

According to the CSDS study, 47 per cent of all Supreme Court Chief Justices between 1950 and 2000 were Brahmins. During the same period, 40 per cent of the Associate Justices in the High Courts and lower courts were Brahmin. The Backward Classes Commission, in a 2007 report, said that 37.17 per cent of the Indian bureaucracy was made up of Brahmins. Most of them occupied the top posts. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 65

Categorization

• XREF: Even the Backward Classes Commission documenting the overrepresentation shows how far post-independence caste-equalization policies fell short — relevant to evaluating reservation annals.