India, July 28 -- The recently concluded students' protests in India under the banner of the "Cockroach Janata Party" were the biggest in a long time in the country. They were also remarkable in another respect. The defining C in Indian politics, namely caste, did not exist as an antagonistic fault line in this movement. By contrast, two of India's biggest students' unrests were built exclusively along caste lines, when the V.P. Singh and Manmohan Singh governments implemented Other Backward Class (OBC) reservations in central government jobs and educational institutions in 1990 and 2006. Why did caste not divide the latest student movement? Here are three data points that could offer a clue.

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