The controversy surrounding Ram Charan’s latest film Peddi began with criticism over its portrayal of women, particularly the ...

Identity and caste are common currency denominations in Uttar Pradesh—for the privileged as much as for caste-emancipatory politics. The government has now issued a directive that outlaws a central ...

The BJP, however, believes that reports of the collapse of its backward caste coalition are premature. BJP spokesperson ...

Submitted just before the change of guard, the caste survey presents DK Shivakumar with his first major political and social ...

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 ...

The socialist “will be compelled to take account of caste after the revolution, if he does not take account of it before the ...

The Indian government will collect caste details in its next population census in a policy U-turn that could have sweeping socioeconomic and political ramifications. Information minister Ashwini ...

Mysuru (Karnataka) [India], May 8 (ANI): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat advocated for inter-caste marriages to eradicate discrimination in the society of which, he said, politicians ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country. Information ...

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