Caste, a word foreign in origin but deeply immersed in India's identity today, has travelled centuries and continents. From colonial classification to present-day politics, it continues to define ...

Aravindan Neelakandan in his 'A Dharmic Social History of India' has sought to deconstruct the widely held views on the ...

NEW DELHI — India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The first census in 16 ...

With the Bihar assembly elections approaching, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is reshuffling key posts to fine-tune the caste equations crucial to his strategy. In recent days, he appointed former JDU MP ...

Similar nomenclatures at the heart of fake caste certificate menace Addressing a party rally in Hosapete recently, Kharge said: “How was it that 5,000 people now became 4-5 lakh?

Patna: CM Nitish Kumar on Friday profusely thanked PM Narendra Modi for approving a nationwide caste census, a long-standing demand of his party, the JD(U)."I express my gratitude to PM Narendra ...

The move is widely seen as a bid to consolidate the upper-caste vote bank ahead of the crucial polls. The newly constituted commission will be chaired by senior BJP leader Mahachandra Singh ...

The Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government has formed a commission for the development of upper castes. Senior BJP leader Mahachandra Singh has been made the chairman of this commission while JDU's ...

The JD(U) president was sharing the stage with the PM at Karakat, about 140 km from the state capital, where the latter launched development projects worth more than Rs 48,000 crore.

Actor-politician Vijay called on Tamil Nadu students to preserve democratic values, shun caste and religious divisions, and vote for clean, non-corrupt candidates.

This divergence raises urgent constitutional and ethical questions. Why do some High Courts continue to resemble bastions of caste privilege? Why does the Collegium system of appointments - shrouded ...

This indicates that although the four varna classification is used throughout India, the jati hierarchy has more local classifications that vary from region to region. P Chidambaram explains-“The ...