Considering the gap between increasing group representation and expanding individual opportunities.Reading India through ...

The republic was not even a month old when the census superintendents of all states of the infant nation gathered in Delhi to prepare for the gargantuan task before them – the first census of ...

Speculation over renaming the JD(U) and a possible merger with the BJP has intensified questions about Nitish Kumar's ...

"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 ...

In his article “ Being a Dalit, being a cockroach: A self-reflective note on Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ ”, Bhimraj M, a scholar ...

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 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 ...

For the first time, in decades, UP assembly elections may see caste politics of a different kind at play. Brahmins are likely ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Manjeet Sarkar, the Bastar-born comic, reflects on caste, the cost of political comedy and why he’s no “Dalit comedian” ...