FACT-Before Independence the whole of the peninsula was covered by Reservation.Reservation was first started in Kolhapur by the initiative of the Maharaja of Kolhapur in 1902. Next it was introduced by the Maharaja of Mysore in his Princely State in May 1921.The third in the line was the Madras Presidency (which included the present Tamil Nadu, the present Andhra Pradesh, the northern part of Kerala and certain parts of the present Karnataka) where it was introduced in September 1921 by the Justice Party which came to power in the Province on the plank of curbing the then existing Brahmin monopoly. Next was the Bombay Presidency in 1931. Next came Travancore where the Maharaja introduced Reservation in 1935, followed by the Maharaja of Cochin. Thus, before Independence the whole of the peninsula was covered by Reservation.