Kharge and Gandhi said they do not accept the caste census being conducted in the current manner and urged the government to ...
BJP’s caste census reversal may mark a shift from Hindu consolidation to governing caste through data, welfare and political ...
New Delhi: Leaders of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the ...
Mallikarjun Kharge is the president of India’s largest Opposition party, but the office he occupies does not seem to erase ...
The Caste Census 2027 could repeat the failures of the 2011 SECC unless OBC and General categories are properly enumerated.
Reservation has become deeply embedded in India’s social and political framework, making its complete abolition extremely ...
Analysts, activists and politicians describe the chosen methodology for counting caste as a flawed one. Some even argue that ...
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 ...
Jairam Ramesh says the questionnaire includes “micro questions” on religion and parents’ birth details, never asked in a ...
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 ...
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 ...