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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A new essay collection spanning Bharati's oratory, Periyar's caste politics and Tamil cinema's voice offers insight, though ...

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 ...

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At his Pollachi conference, K Annamalai said We The Leaders will become a political party. He framed it as a secular, ...

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 ...

Like many recent arrivals to California, Prem Pariyar searched for work and a home within communities of fellow immigrants. So when coworkers at a South Asian restaurant in Davis refused to room with ...