Travelers to India have commented on caste for more than two thousand years. In Indian society the group comes first, unlike our own society that gives so much importance to the individual personality ...

Discriminatory and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of a vast global population has been justified on the basis of caste. In much of Asia and parts of Africa, caste is the basis for the ...

Around 80 per cent of India’s population belongs to Other Backward Classes (OBC), Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities, who were excluded and discriminated against by ...

Dhulia will likely be involved in the writing ... Eventually, a “compromise” was arrived at: On the field, the upper-caste cricketers would touch the same ball, but off it, all the ritual ...

The Union government is yet to take a call on conducting the next Census exercise but active discussion is on to expand the data collection to include caste enumeration, a top government source ...

Carrithers, Michael 1988. Passions of Nation and Community in the Bahubali Affair. Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 22, Issue. 4, p. 815.

New Delhi: Amid little clarity on when the much delayed Census will begin, Congress on Thursday said the government can easily collect caste-wise OBC population data during the exercise by just ...

Seattle has become the first US city to ban discrimination based on caste after a vote by the city council. Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, who wrote the legislation, said the fight against caste bias ...

People have ordered to carry out a caste census, and if Prime Minister Narendra Modi doesn’t do it, another Prime Minister will do it, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said on ...

Pressing the demand for a nationwide "caste census", Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said 90 per cent people of the country are sitting out of the system and the step should be taken in ...

RSS spokesperson Sunil Ambekar said that caste and caste relations are sensitive issues in Hindu society and important for national unity. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Monday backed the ...

In a major development, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), BJP’s ideological parent, extended its support to the nationwide caste census on Monday (September 2) calling it a sensitive issue.