India, June 29 -- The recent Supreme Court judgment that Christians cannot be classified as Scheduled Castes has stirred many emotions. I read the verdict with sadness, but not because I believe the Court was wrong. In fact, the Court merely interpreted the Constitution as it stands.

Scheduled Caste status was originally created to address the historical discrimination and untouchability suffered by specific communities within the Hindu fold, and later extended under certain constitutional provisions to Sikhs and Buddhists. The judges could not simply rewrite what the Constitution says.

But while the Court may have been right, I believe our governments have been unfair.

Somewhere along the way, governments rightly recognised that mill...