Passengers' Dilemma

Many of you may be familiar with the predicaments of a situation popularly known as Prisoners’ Dilemma. What I want to present here is a dilemma with a different set of players in a different setting. I want to call this the ‘Passengers’ Dilemma’. Since it involves passengers travelling to a faraway destination in a train.

Reservations...

I have recently been asking some of my friends about the methods employed to measure social backwardness. Specifically, methods for measuring social backwardness which do not take recourse to educational and economic indicators. My initial assumption was that it would not be possible to measure social backwardness without falling back onto educational and economic indicators.

The purpose of this assumption was to show that, if the assumption is held to be true, although social backwardness is claimed to be a factor in deciding candidates (i mean entire communities as candidates, not individuals) for availing reservations, what we are essentially doing is looking at the educational and economic factors within