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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 ...

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 ...

The Maharashtra government has extended the tenure of the Justice Sandeep Shinde (retd) committee, responsible for ...

On November 7, a five-person bench of India’s Supreme Court ruled 3-2 that the government can reserve 10 percent of the spots in educational institutions and government jobs for members of the ...

Mumbai has seen countless protests, but the late-August agitation led by Manoj Jarange-Patil was different. Promised as a peaceful sit-in, it swelled into a massive rally that paralysed the city’s ...

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 ...

Parbhani: The Matang community has initiated an agitation at the district collectorate demanding classification in the Scheduled Caste reservations for the past 50 days. On Thursday, a delegation of ...

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.