Sanctioned by its constitution, India is home to an elaborate affirmative action program for allocation of public jobs, where historically discriminated groups are protected with vertical reservations implemented as"set asides ,"and other disadvantaged groups are protected with horizontal reservations implemented as"minimum guarantees .``Concurrent implementation of these two policies with overlapping beneficiaries makes this program more complex than others elsewhere . An allocation mechanism mandated by the Supreme Court judgement Anil Kumar Gupta vs. Uttar Pradesh (1995) suffers from a number of anomalies, including disadvantaged candidates losing positions to privileged candidates of lower merit, triggering countless litigations and disarray in the country . Foretelling a recent reform in India, we propose an alternative mechanism that resolves all anomalies, and uniquely characterize it with desiderata reflecting the laws of India . Subsequently reinvented with an August 2020 High Court judgement and mandated for the state of Gujarat, our mechanism is endorsed for India with a December 2020 judgement of the Supreme Court.