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India will soon start its delayed census, including asking questions about caste
NEW DELHI — India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The first census in 16 ...
The Pioneer on MSN13d
A Dharmic Demystification of India's Caste System
Aravindan Neelakandan in his 'A Dharmic Social History of India' has sought to deconstruct the widely held views on the ...
India is preparing to launch its delayed census, including controversial questions about caste
NEW DELHI -- India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The first census in 16 ...
India Today on MSN7d
How Caste, a word of Spanish origin, redefined Indian social order during British rule
Caste, a word foreign in origin but deeply immersed in India's identity today, has travelled centuries and continents. From ...
India West7d
The Caste Train And The Witch Hunt of Hindus
Effectively, an American state body tried to define religious beliefs, claiming that the caste system was an integral ... as opposition from the Hindu and Indian American communities ramped ...
The Australian Financial Review29d
A caste census will reveal India’s worst-kept secret
Presenting the biggest obstacle to India’s embrace of modernity, the caste system divides Hindus into rigid categories that govern every aspect of life. The last successful exercise to record ...
The Hindu23d
Analysing the 2023 caste-based Census of Bihar
‘Caste and Socio-economic Inequality in Bihar: A Disaggregated Analysis of the 2023 Census’, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol 59, Issue no. 47, November 23, 2024 In India, caste has been ...
UCA News29d
Christian marriage takes away lower caste social benefits: Indian court
The top court in southern Indian Tamil Nadu state has ruled that persons marrying under the Christian personal law should be considered to have converted to Christianity and abandoned their ...
India West7d
MAGA Rep. Brandon Gill Links Gujarati Gathering To ‘Caste System’
Gill responded with a tweet that drew immediate criticism: “America is the ‘land of opportunity’ precisely because we DON’T have a caste system ... the type of anti-Indian and anti ...
The Indian Express27d
How caste permeated the Sikh community
In the heart of India’s national capital ... Sikhism, although a synthesis of Hinduism and Islam, has since its inception denounced the caste system. Yet caste, as a social category, remains ...
The Indian Express27d
Caste: how a Spanish word, carried by the Portuguese, came to describe social order in India
Castes are therefore difficult not only to define but to distinguish.” The word ‘caste’ is often used to describe India’s unique social system, but the term did not come from India. So how did a ...
The Hindu26d
Caste census a ‘moral obligation’ of Indian democracy: Kharge
A caste census is not a mere statistical exercise but a “moral obligation” of Indian democracy, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said on Friday (May 23, 2025) as he urged party ...