Hyderabad: The state govt is willing to correct any anomalies in the Socio-Economic, Education, Employment, Political and ...

In his article “ Being a Dalit, being a cockroach: A self-reflective note on Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ ”, Bhimraj M, a scholar ...

The republic was not even a month old when the census superintendents of all states of the infant nation gathered in Delhi to prepare for the gargantuan task before them – the first census of ...

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 ...

BJP leader Pankaja Munde emphasizes that politics and leadership based on caste considerations have a short shelf life, ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Only a polity stripped of conscience would want the marginalised — the Mahatma’s ‘last person in the line’ — to remain yoked to the mantle of discrimination ...

The religious right wing in the Congress Party and the opposition alike, drawn from the same upper echelons of the caste ...

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 ...

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 ...

Distinguished Indian sociologist and public intellectual Dipankar Gupta, formerly a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, speaks to The Daily Star about the historical evolution of caste, the ...