In fact, India’s “reserved places” scheme operates as a deliberate smokescreen, for it allows the government cleverly to mask the real issue, which is access to primary education for India’s disadvantaged. Were adequate primary education available to India’s poor – or, for that matter, to America’s poor urban blacks – there would be no need for reserved places in higher education and elsewhere.
事实上，印度的“保留地”方案是一个故意释放的烟幕，因为它允许政府巧妙地掩盖问题的真相，也就是让印度弱势群体获取接受初级教育的机会。假如印度的穷人能够享有充分的初级教育或者，就此而言，美国贫穷的城市黑人能够享有的话，就没有必要在高等教育和其它领域设置保留地。