If the prerequisite of the imagination of a decent society is the logic of democracy, then the logic of caste absolutely militates against it. Democracy broadly presupposes equal moral worth of all ...

Media accounts simultaneously cast her as victim and avenger, until a life shaped by caste violence and gendered oppression ...

Nearly a hundred years after Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar’s famous treatise, The Annihilation of Caste, who would have thought that India would turn a full circle, or should I say turn turtle? For today ...

Anand Teltumbde’s The Caste Con Census brings to the fore a long history of disconnect between claims on the one hand and ...

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 ...

Tejashwi also faces challenges as RJD has to build second-rung leadership of non-Yadav OBC and EBC groups and address ...

Once again, caste is casting a shadow over India’s politics. Caste-based quotas in education and government employment are supposed to benefit India’s most deprived, but in reality they have hardened, ...

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 ...

This GreatAndhra Big Story begins is about the new phenomenon called "Caste Houses". A well-known caste from Andhra Pradesh has now tried to show its pride by building a housing project in the United ...

Information Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw didn’t say when the census would begin when he announced it would include caste information Wednesday. He said the decision demonstrated New Delhi’s commitment to ...