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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...