April 23, 1999

Affirmative-Action Dispute Leads to Violence at a Top Medical School in India

By MARION LLOYD

The debate over whether India's sweeping affirmative-action policies should apply to medical education has triggered violence at one of the country's top medical colleges.

Students from the University College of Medical Sciences here have been staging protests outside the school since late February, when they say they were attacked and beaten by upper-caste students in the first of several violent incidents on the campus.

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