Reservation has become deeply embedded in India’s social and political framework, making its complete abolition extremely ...

BJP’s caste census reversal may mark a shift from Hindu consolidation to governing caste through data, welfare and political ...

Any measure of feminist progress that shies away from tackling caste in India will result in rights that are eventually ...

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi have urged Prime Minister ...

The Caste Census 2027 could repeat the failures of the 2011 SECC unless OBC and General categories are properly enumerated.

Mallikarjun Kharge is the president of India’s largest Opposition party, but the office he occupies does not seem to erase ...

Analysts, activists and politicians describe the chosen methodology for counting caste as a flawed one. Some even argue that ...

Party sources said the exercise is being carried out through the SP’s organisational machinery and would help the party ...

Follow TNM’s WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.The Tamil Nadu Assembly witnessed fierce debates over social ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...