Gujjars have held repeated protests demanding their share of reservation.
It is a landmark judgment, the Rajasthan High court has asked the state government to conduct a fresh survey of the communities who are on the state list of Other Backward Castes or OBCs.
The state OBC list contains 81 communities and who cumulatively enjoy 21% reservation and there is continuous conflict between the communities over availing their share of quota.
This order came 16 years after a petition was filed by seven people against job reservation given to the Jat community in Rajasthan.
The petitioners argued that the Jats in Rajasthan were given OBC status by the Vajpayee government in 1999 for political reasons.
But no survey had been conducted to determine whether they were really backward or not.
The court has now asked the government to remove Jats from two districts -- Dholpur and Bharatpur -- from the OBC list, since they comprise the ruling classes in these areas. Even Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and her son MP Dushyant Singh both belong to the Jat royal family of Dholpur.
Pleased with the judgment, one of the seven petitioners, Yashvardhan Singh, said: "For the first time, a state government will have to review the entire OBC list in the state. They were supposed to do it in 2003 and then again in 2013, but it was never done because of political pressure."
The judgment could well lead to a realignment of caste equations as communities in the OBC list are in conflict over share of the reservation pie. Since 2007, the Gujjars have been demanding a separate quota, claiming they have not been getting their share of reservation as politically and socially influential Jats are cornering the lion's share.
The government has said it is studying the judgment, but the advocate representing the Jats in the case, Hanuman Chaudhary, also welcomed the court's decision.
"When reservation is being handed out, why exclude the Jats? They are also backward farmers," he said.