Judicial services show near-zero Dalit representation even in socially progressive states

Evidence

The same report has some disturbing statistics about the representation of Dalits and Adivasis in India’s judicial services: among Delhi’s twenty High Court judges, not one belonged to the Scheduled Castes, and in all other judicial posts, the figure was 1.2 per cent; similar figures were reported from Rajasthan; Gujarat had no Dalit or Adivasi judges; in Tamil Nadu, with its legacy of social justice movements, only four out of thirty-eight High Court judges were Dalit; Kerala, with its Marxist legacy, had one Dalit High Court judge among twenty-five. A study of the prison population would probably reveal an inverse ratio. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 72

Categorization

• XREF: The prison-inverse-ratio remark connects to mass-incarceration disparities literature elsewhere (e.g. US racial prison inequality) — a general pattern of caste/race skew in punishment systems.