India's caste system is 3,000 years old and continues to determine the opportunities that most of the country's 1.4 billion ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy in India and is critical to Indian life and politics. There are hundreds of ...

One of the dictionary definitions of the English phrase ‘coming to one’s senses’ is — ‘to become reasonable after acting ...

Across the world, May 1 is set aside to honour the dignity of labour and the long struggle for workers’ rights. In India, ...

Instead of caste census, what India truly needs is a nationwide, dynamic database that can provide granular insights required ...

India will include caste details in its next population census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and ...

Anjum Manhas India, characterized by vast diversity, carries the complex legacy of the caste system-a centuries-old social ...

The demand for a nationwide caste census in India has re-emerged as a focal point of socio-political discourse. At the heart ...

India is prepared for caste enumeration in the upcoming Census, with expert advice from Professor Sukhdeo Thorat.

A caste census will lead to demands for reservations in jobs and education proportional to the population share. Hindu upper castes are anxious that their share will shrink.

More than two-thirds of country’s 1.4 billion people estimated to be on lower rungs of archaic social hierarchy that grades ...