A 'shuddhikaran' ceremony held at Haldwani's Ramlila Maidan days after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's rally has triggered a fierce political battle between the BJP and Congress. While Rahul ...
One would not be surprised to find that Dalits form the overwhelming majority of the thousands of ‘Pourakarmikas’ in what is ...
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 ...
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K'taka deputy CM expresses concern over methodology for caste enumeration in 2027 census
Bengaluru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara on Friday expressed concern over the proposed methodology for caste ...
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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Udit Raj questions UCC, says breaking caste system is bigger challenge
Congress leader Udit Raj questioned the impact of the Uniform Civil Code, stating that breaking the country's caste system is ...
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 ...
Community leaders, including a Christian pastor, have cautiously welcomed a northern Indian state’s move to ban caste-based political rallies, arguing it will undermine grassroots struggles by 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 ...
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 ...
NEW DELHI: In a surprise decision, the Centre on Wednesday announced that the caste census will be included in the next national census exercise in a “transparent manner”. Making the announcement at a ...
"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 ...
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