The government may add a caste column to the upcoming census, India Today reported on Monday, September 16. The last census was conducted in 2011 and was delayed due to the outbreak of the COVID ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...