For decades, politics in Uttar Pradesh has revolved around caste arithmetic. Political parties built their electoral strategies around social identities, community loyalties and traditional vote banks ...

Mayawati's Strong Remarks Against SP's Caste Politics The national president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and former ...

Can Gen Z’s protest bridge India’s caste divide? Ambedkarite politics, education inequality and social justice shape a new ...

Bankipur therefore does not announce the demise of caste politics. It signals something subtler: the weakening of the ...

For the first time since Independence, India's Census will record the caste of all respondents, making Census 2027 one of the ...

The RSS claims to unite Hindus, but caste hierarchies persist within and beyond its ranks. What does Hindu unity mean without equality? Read the analysis.

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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 ...

The enumerators will also ask for the birthplace of respondents, place of last residence, reason for migration, duration of ...

Enumerators to record caste stated by people, will not try to classify surnames, sub-castes into broader caste categories ...