Rahul Gandhi has written to Telangana CM Revanth Reddy, as well as Karnataka & Himachal CMs 'to put a firm end' to ...

From the use of the word ‘Harijan’ alone, to the absence of acknowledgement of structural discrimination within Bangladesh ...

The SC sub-caste of Madiga, which is further divided into several other sub-castes, claims that the other main SC sub-caste, the Mala community ... Dehlavi was a spoken language, but soon people began ...

UCSB sociologist Dana Kornberg examines how race, caste and institutional access shape unequal pathways to status and wealth ...

Despite this, caste Hindus stood firm in their opposition. In the evening, amid police protection, SC people offered prayers in the temple, and after they offered prayers, the temple was closed.

Rising contractual employment in sanitation work draws upon and reproduces historical inequalities of caste and class in ...

Chikkamagaluru: Former chairman of the Karnataka State Permanent Backward Classes Commission, K Jayaprakash Hegde, claimed that it was not a caste census ... Nearly five crore people come under ...

Karnataka's Congress government faces internal dissent over a caste survey report ... covering 5.9 crore people across 1.3 crore households. The survey was completed in 2018, but the report ...

The release of the population data of castes/sub-castes in Karnataka, as part of the Socio-Economic and Educational Survey (popularly called caste census), has generated much political heat.

Else, the people will dispute the numbers.” The leak of key details from the report, which remains officially unreleased, has triggered political and public outrage. Prominent caste groups like ...