A caste census will lead to demands for reservations in jobs and education proportional to the population share. Hindu upper castes are anxious that their share will shrink.

India is set to conduct its first caste-based census in years, and for the first time, Muslim communities will also be asked ...

Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once ...

Rather than treating the caste census as a battlefield between competing political visions, we could reimagine it as a ...

All economics, it is said, is about politics. And all politics is grounded in economics—effectively about public policies to ...

Caste, a social structure in India, is now central to politics. Parties analyze caste composition before candidate selection.

For the first time in India, the government will have concrete data castes and sub-castes within the Muslim community which ...

More than two-thirds of country’s 1.4 billion people estimated to be on lower rungs of archaic social hierarchy that grades ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy in India and is critical to Indian life and politics. There are hundreds of ...

India's cabinet approved the inclusion of citizens' caste details in its population census on Wednesday, the information ...

The caste details of citizens will be included in India's population census, the country's information minister has announced ...