“Clearly, the prime minister was forced to capitulate and agree to the widespread demand for a caste census, which was ...

NEW DELHI — India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The first census in 16 years will be conducted digitally and include controversial questions about ...

Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring on Tuesday declined to comment on Jalandhar MP Charanjit Singh Channi’s remark that there is inadequate representation of Dalits in the party, but ...

Political commentators say the backlash has made explicit the challenge whether Hindutva, which is essentially Brahmanical, ...

Indian society rests on a graded hierarchy called caste, which Dr BR Ambedkar described as “an ascending scale of reverence ...

The BJP, despite its umbrella Hindutva assertion, has been more successful than other parties in cobbling coalitions with ...

The earlier rules struggled to confront entrenched biases, especially those faced by marginalized communities. The new ...

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From Vellappally Natesan, who was awarded the Padma Bhushan on Sunday, to Jamaat-e-Islami Hind and Christian group CAASA, several outfits are trying to shape Kerala's political discourse. The measure ...

The conference, titled "Critical Philosophy of Caste and Race", was organised by the CPCR, a research study group functioning ...

Community leaders, including a Christian pastor, have cautiously welcomed a northern Indian state’s move to ban caste-based political rallies, arguing it will undermine grassroots struggles by the ...

UGC's 2026 equity regulations aim to tackle discrimination across caste, gender, disability and institutional power. Yet ...