The hierarchical identity system continues to divide society — nearly 100 years after calls for its abolition.

The Narendra Modi government’s decision to include caste enumeration in the next Census is one that is bold, transformative and commendable. Counting caste is not capitulation to identity politics.

India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ...

I n the late 1980s, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) founder-president Kanshi Ram began to project obscure leaders from the ...

Caste Census: Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA), on 30 April approved the enumeration of castes in the upcoming Census — a surprising decision that ...

The government is set to ask people questions about their caste in the next census — the first such move in nearly 100 years. Experts say the results are likely to have significant consequences ...

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.

Caste enumeration will be included in the upcoming national census. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced this decision in a briefing. The BJP criticised Congress for historically opposing the ...

The over 70-year-old Census Act will not require changes to allow enumerators carrying out census exercise to seek details of caste from the population, officials said. They said the 1948 law ...

Union Minister Chirag Paswan rebuts RJD's claims over the caste census credit, asserting that the BJP has fulfilled its ...

The central government on Wednesday announced that caste enumeration will be a part of the National Census, an ANI report said. According to the report, Union Minister for Railways and Information ...

The last time the census in India included questions on caste was in 1931, when the British ruled the country. In fact, the British - for obvious reasons - did so in every census. Census ...