Reservation Hatao Andolan (RHA) has emerged as a growing Instagram-led campaign demanding an end to caste-based reservations ...

With S Ramadoss stepping away from active politics after nearly five decades in public life, Tamil Nadu is witnessing the close of one of its most consequential -- and controversial -- political chapt ...

Cabinet Committee decides on caste census for transformative governance, addressing inequities and enhancing democratic accountability in India.

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 ...

Those in the OBC and General categories will remain unseen, even though the caste census was revived specifically to make ...

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 ...

Options are an open-ended format with respondents self-declaring castes, or a drop-down menu of recognised castes. Among ...

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 ...

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This year’s general election in India arguably brought up more questions about the fairness of the electoral process than any other in the country’s history. For example, in December, a bill was ...

Like many recent arrivals to California, Prem Pariyar searched for work and a home within communities of fellow immigrants. So when coworkers at a South Asian restaurant in Davis refused to room with ...