"Two things are new in the love jihad propaganda. One, the replacement of the abhorred Dalit man by the feared Muslim man.

Identity and caste are common currency denominations in Uttar Pradesh—for the privileged as much as for caste-emancipatory politics. The government has now issued a directive that outlaws a central ...

New Delhi, Apr 30 (PTI) 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 ...

The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with population of nearly 220 million, goes to the polls from Feb. 11 to Mar. 8 in what will be the biggest democratic election in the world this year. Here's a look ...

Jyoti Basu, CPI(M) leader and former chief minister of West Bengal, said in 1980 that only “rich and poor classes” existed in the state. | REUTERS In 1932, Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore endorsed ...

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 ...

Vijayawada: Deputy Chief Minister and Jana Sena chief K Pawan Kalyan asserted that he has never practiced politics using the ...

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What comes to mind first when one hears of caste in India? Generally, the institution of caste is associated with Hindu social life, and such a social structure is often assumed to be nonexistent ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country. Information ...