India, March 12 -- India is edging toward a renewed anti-Mandal churn because, despite social justice being a far-fetched dream, its categories have hardened into dogma. Ambedkarite constitutionalism and Mandal-era OBC mobilisation are not interchangeable inheritances. Ambedkarite politics rests on a civilisational indictment. Untouchability constituted juridical and ritual exclusion embedded in everyday practice. The Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe safeguards respond to stigma, violence and structural denial of personhood. Their constitutional legitimacy derives from historically demonstrable degradation that reproduced itself across generations irrespective of income or occupation. These protections are foundational to the moral arc...