Open-ended caste entries have revived concerns over the errors that derailed the 2011 caste data, with Congress pushing for a ...

Jairam Ramesh says the questionnaire includes “micro questions” on religion and parents’ birth details, never asked in a ...

The Kharge “purification” row has moved from Haldwani to Parliament and the CWC, triggering a wider political battle over ...

The last eight decades have seen caste transmogrify into newer and more entrenched forms, regulating the lives of mns from accident of birth to moment of death ...

Mallikarjun Kharge is the president of India’s largest Opposition party, but the office he occupies does not seem to erase ...

Bankipur therefore does not announce the demise of caste politics. It signals something subtler: the weakening of the assumption that caste alone can guarantee political loyalty.

Rahul Gandhi has intensified his criticism of the Modi government regarding the caste census, suggesting that strong ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...