Explore Acharya Prashant's philosophical insights on caste equality, rejecting hierarchy through Vedanta and engaging with Dr ...

The Lok Sabha elections drew a sharp debate on reservation policies in general and caste census in particular. After the results, the formation of a coalition government with at least one key player, ...

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 ...

In the book, Teltumbde argues that caste is not a list of categories waiting to be counted but a graded hierarchy that governs access to dignity, education, land, labour, and power. Teltumbde ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (second from left) inaugurates the caste-based census in his ancestral village of Bakhtiarpur in Bihar, India, April 15, 2023. Credit: Wikipedia/Information and ...

Union minister for consumer affairs, food and public distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan is the senior-most Dalit face in the Narendra Modi government. Union minister for consumer affairs, food and public ...

Dehradun: Uttarakhand high court dismissed 32 writ petitions seeking Scheduled Caste (SC) reservation in state jobs by individuals originally from other states, ruling that benefits linked to caste ...

On April 30, the Indian government announced a decision that will reverberate through the nation's social fabric for generations: the upcoming national census will include comprehensive caste data for ...

India’s Supreme Court upholding the economic criteria for granting educational and job quotas to the privileged upper castes could be the final nail in the coffin for the country’s affirmative action ...

It’s a much delayed Census, and changes are afoot. On Monday, the government notified the 2027 Indian Census, which will be the first census exercise in India in 16 years. India has seen significant ...