The Uttar Pradesh government, acting on an Allahabad High Court directive, has banned caste references in police records, ...

Periyar spoke of caste abolition for decades. This collection of his speeches shows how his self-respect model still left Dalit oppression unresolved.

The death of 20-year-old IIT Bombay student Sahil Wakode and the booking of a professor under the SC/ST Act and for alleged abetment to suicide have triggered protests, political reactions and a wider ...

The Tamil Nadu Congress will hold public meetings and discussions across 10 major cities as part of its statewide campaign.

Identity can throw open the doors to power. However, without a programme for shared future, that very identity can also shatter that power into pieces.

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 ...

With around five months left for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the BJP is focusing on governance, development and ...

Abroad, India’s RSS Speaks of ‘Love.’ At Home, Its Affiliates Attack Christians. In the 1990s, the Anthropological Survey of India presented a book that summarized seven years of field research on 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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

New Delhi: All castes were enumerated during census exercises carried out in British India between 1881 and 1931, but at the time of the first census of independent India in 1951, the then government ...