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Recently various agrarian communities such as Patels in Gujarat, Kapus in Andhra Pradesh, Jats in Haryana and Marathas in Maharashtra are demanding for Other Backward Castes (OBC) status in various states of India. Their demands are the result of the failure of the economic policies in India. However, these groups are already closer to the upper castes than to the more disadvantaged groups in their respective states. But these Communities had adversely been affected by the New Economic Policies introduced since 1991. After 1991, the government ignored the agriculture sector which affected these agrarian communities because they could not take non-farm sector activities because of their traits of independent working and entry barriers erected by traditional business communities.