The 2027 census will include caste information, along with other demographic characteristics. Although the Supreme Court has ...

India’s Supreme Court has intervened in the controversy over the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s plans to expand caste-based reservations (mandatory affirmative action programs) at the ...

If caste is to be counted, it should be counted well and the open-ended way of registering it in Census will not serve the intended purpose ...

Bihar released the results of a historic caste-based survey in October 2023, mapping the state’s demographic and economic landscape. This comprehensive exercise counted all castes for the first time ...

A heated debate unfolded in the Lok Sabha as BJP MP Nishikant Dubey accused the Congress of historically opposing caste-based reservation policies. Highlighting the rise of OBCs in top corporate and ...

India’s Congress Party-led coalition government has decided that the 2011 decennial census will be a “caste census”—the first in the almost 65 year history of independent India. On August 12, Pranab ...

SIXTY years after India's constitution banned caste discrimination, Hinduism's millennia-old hierarchy retains a tight grip. Lonely-hearts ads in the newspapers are classified by caste and sub-caste.