India’s Supreme Court on Tuesday changed its 17-year-old stance on the university quota limit for members of the country’s so-called backward castes and other disadvantaged populations, reports The Asian Age. Previously the court capped such quotas at 50 percent of enrollment, but now it says states can exceed that limit if they provide solid data that the action would benefit students in their regions. Since 1993, when the court set the limit, state governments have fought to increase it and extend quotas to minority religious communities.