The Tripura Left Front on Friday met Additional Director General of Police Anurag Dhankar, accusing the ruling BJP of ...

The story so far: The Union Cabinet has decided that the next Census will include questions on caste to its enumeration of India’s population, for the first time in almost a century. The ...

The government’s decision to include a caste count in India’s next Census is welcome. But we must get the details of this enumeration right and not compromise what’s in our collective interest.

Telangana Backward Classes Commission chairman G Niranjan said once the Centre conducts the caste census, it would make the latest survey conducted by the state government redundant Telangana ...

Mr. Surjewala alleged that the BJP and the RSS had always fiercely opposed the conducting of caste census from the very beginning. He asserted that the RSS-BJP publicly denied the idea of caste ...

Congress celebrates Rahul Gandhi's persistent advocacy for a caste census, claiming it forced the Modi government's hand after 11 years of resistance. The party plans to amplify its role in ...

Congress criticized PM Modi for previously dismissing Rahul Gandhi's caste census demand as "urban naxal mindset," while now BJP leaders are claiming credit for the government's decision to ...

So India will resume doing what it should never have stopped doing, namely, finding out how many people there are in each caste. Not that it had stopped entirely, of course. It had kept counting ...

In a letter to Modi, Kharge also called on the prime minister to have a dialogue with all political parties soon on the issue of the caste census A process such as a caste census should not be ...

(RNS) — Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once led a mass conversion of Dalits, or lower caste, to Buddhism.

The most significant caste census in the history of Indian ethnography was not that of 1931. It was the 1911 census that catapulted the non-descript, oppressed and dehumanised community of ...