BJP MLA Maithili Thakur explained how she tries to balance representation across communities in her Alinagar constituency.

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 ...

India, Sept. 27 -- Commission chairperson addresses discrimination, welfare data, certificates and legal protections for ...

Telangana is entering a new phase of reservation politics, driven by demands for a 42 per cent Backward Class (BC) quota, ...

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 ...

MNS chief urges students to keep pressing for changes to academic practices and mental health support as IIT Bombay case is ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI: In a surprise decision, the Centre on Wednesday announced that the caste census will be included in the next national census exercise in a “transparent manner”. Making the announcement at a ...

"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 ...