The book examines the key issues of the upliftment of the backward classes (particularly OBCs) in the context of: (1) Fundamental Rights and Provision for Reservation in the Constitution of India; (2) Kaka Kalelkar Report; (3) Mandal Commission Recommendations; (4) Present Government Policy on Reservations; (5) Critique of Government Policy; (6) Education as catalyst of change based on Indian Educational Documents right from the Kothari Commission Report (1964-66) to NPE Review Committee (1990). The focus of the book is on the indicators of facilities offered and those required, including provision of educational facilities as stipulated in the Kothari Report, two and a half decades ago. The book also provides complete list of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) as notified by the Centre and States and also detailed Bibliographical Documentation (1947 to 1990, September end). The book should serve as a handy reference tool of related information for general readers as also for students, educators, politicians, social reformers, sociologists, researchers, historians and all those interested in the welfare of culturally, economically, educationally and socially backward classes.