Yogi Adityanath's political appeal in Uttar Pradesh, the piece argues, extends beyond caste arithmetic to renunciation, tough ...

The Tamil Nadu Assembly has just passed a unanimous resolution asking the Centre to include a walled caste count column ...

The Congress on Wednesday stepped up its campaign for a more structured caste census, alleging that the government’s decision to use open-ended questions instead of a drop-down list in the current ...

A 'shuddhikaran' ceremony held at Haldwani's Ramlila Maidan days after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's rally has ...

In a landmark policy shift, the Government of India has announced it will conduct a caste survey alongside Census 2021, breaking from its long-held stance. The decision, taken at a Cabinet meeting ...

Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday reiterated the party’s demand for scrapping the open-ended questions in the ...

On October 2, the government of the eastern Indian state of Bihar released the report of a survey on the state’s population by caste – a traditional hierarchical division in Hindu society. The state ...

Former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah has demanded 75% reservation for socially disadvantaged communities and urged the DK ...

"Votebank" politics Figuring out which party can win in Uttar Pradesh depends on complex caste equations and what political strategists call “votebank” politics. Or, as the saying goes: It’s not how ...

JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief editor of LeftWord Books, and ...

In the 1990s, the Anthropological Survey of India presented a book that summarized seven years of field research on the country’s most backward castes – the volume was titled “Scheduled Castes.” The ...

New Delhi: All castes were enumerated during census exercises carried out in British India between 1881 and 1931, but at the time of the first census of independent India in 1951, the then government ...