RANCHI: A fresh political controversy has erupted in Jharkhand over the state government's directive requiring ration ...

Nitish Kumar's political resilience in Bihar stems from his ability to cultivate a broad support base beyond his Kurmi caste.

"Votebank" politics Figuring out which party can win in Uttar Pradesh depends on complex caste equations and what political strategists call “votebank” politics. Or, as the saying goes: It’s not how ...

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 ...

JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief editor of LeftWord Books, and ...

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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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A census official collects information from a household in Bonda, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, during the 2011 national ...

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This year’s general election in India arguably brought up more questions about the fairness of the electoral process than any other in the country’s history. For example, in December, a bill was ...

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 ...