Relying on a discriminatory relic from the 1950s, the Presidential Order, the AP high court confines its understanding of ...

Despite being inextricably linked to Indian tradition, the modern understanding and usage of the word “caste” came through ...

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

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

India debates the need for a new caste census. Existing data from NFHS and NSS already provide caste demographics and ...

Rather than treating the caste census as a battlefield between competing political visions, we could reimagine it as a ...

All economics, it is said, is about politics. And all politics is grounded in economics—effectively about public policies to ...

Patna: Amid the political scramble to claim credit for the caste census, the JD(U) has released a new poster virtually crediting itself entirely for the initiative, following the Narendra Modi ...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 2 (ANI): Union Minister and West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar on Friday underscored the importance of expediting the caste census, noting that the data ...

Caste, a social structure in India, is now central to politics. Parties analyze caste composition before candidate selection.

While it will provide a lot of information which was not available earlier, the broad contours of India’s caste composition are not exactly unknown The next census will also enumerate caste data ...