Yogi Adityanath's political appeal in Uttar Pradesh, the piece argues, extends beyond caste arithmetic to renunciation, tough ...

The CJP’s cross-caste student movement faces a challenge from anti-reservation groups as caste politics tests its unity ahead ...

The Congress on Wednesday stepped up its campaign for a more structured caste census, alleging that the government’s decision to use open-ended questions instead of a drop-down list in the current ...

Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday reiterated the party’s demand for scrapping the open-ended questions in the ...

Sources said the Ministry’s offer was made at the meeting chaired by Registrar General of India Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan, and ...

Former Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah has demanded 75% reservation for socially disadvantaged communities and urged the DK ...

A 'shuddhikaran' ceremony held at Haldwani's Ramlila Maidan days after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's rally has ...

In a landmark policy shift, the Government of India has announced it will conduct a caste survey alongside Census 2021, breaking from its long-held stance. The decision, taken at a Cabinet meeting ...

Congress's Jairam Ramesh slammed the Modi government's caste census format, demanding open-ended questions be replaced with a certified caste list. He said this is essential to get 'right data' for ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Votebank" politics Figuring out which party can win in Uttar Pradesh depends on complex caste equations and what political strategists call “votebank” politics. Or, as the saying goes: It’s not how ...