India is set to conduct its first caste-based census in years, and for the first time, Muslim communities will also be asked ...

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Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once ...

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India's cabinet approved the inclusion of citizens' caste details in its population census on Wednesday, the information ...

For the first time in India, the government will have concrete data castes and sub-castes within the Muslim community which ...

More than two-thirds of country’s 1.4 billion people estimated to be on lower rungs of archaic social hierarchy that grades ...

NEW DELHI, April 30 (Reuters) - India's cabinet approved the inclusion of citizens' caste details in its population census on Wednesday, the information minister said, seeking to gain the ...

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The caste system is a rigid social stratification system that dates back thousands of years and is still critical in Indian life and politics, with those at the bottom rung routinely discriminated ...