In a historic departure from policy, the Census of 2027 is, for the first time since independence, enumerating castes other ...

Analysts, activists and politicians describe the chosen methodology for counting caste as a flawed one. Some even argue that ...

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

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

Party sources said the exercise is being carried out through the SP’s organisational machinery and would help the party ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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