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 : The majority does not. What this article states is that in the 1999-2000 census, only 36 percent of the population is OBC. And in that is a category called "Muslim" - Muslims may have their poor, but not all muslims are, and many are filthy rich. Why give them reservation at all? There's no reason for it to be caste or birth based. And frankly, if we're going to distribute jobs by population then we might as well turn communist, because merit doesn't play a role anymore.