Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (second from left) inaugurates the caste-based census in his ancestral village of Bakhtiarpur in Bihar, India, April 15, 2023. Credit: Wikipedia/Information and ...

New Delhi: Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday said that the government has taken a bold decision to include caste-based enumeration in the upcoming decadal census and called it a ...

In the 1990s, the Anthropological Survey of India presented a book that summarized seven years of field research on the country’s most backward castes – the volume was titled “Scheduled Castes.” The ...

New Delhi | Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the government's caste census decision, urging him to draw upon the Telangana model as well as have a ...

With India in the middle of the world’s largest democratic exercise, universities are under the spotlight as never before. Over the past five years – as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by the ...

On April 30, the Indian government announced a decision that will reverberate through the nation's social fabric for generations: the upcoming national census will include comprehensive caste data for ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday (March 24, 2026) held that a pastor from the Madiga community in Andhra Pradesh could not claim Scheduled Caste status after converting to a religion not covered under the ...