Caste remains the primary axis of social stratification in India, influencing access to education, employment, land, ...

The Indian government has long insisted that the social hierarchy has no place in the country, which banned caste ...

The hierarchical identity system continues to divide the nation of 1.4 billion people almost 100 years after calls for its ...

More than two-thirds of country’s 1.4 billion people estimated to be on lower rungs of archaic social hierarchy that grades Hindus by birth ...

There are hundreds of castes and subcastes in India’s ancient social hierarchy largely based ... for several decades but constitute about half the country’s more than 1.4 billion people. These are ...

Colonial ruler Britain began an Indian census in 1872 and counted all castes until 1931. However, independent India since 1951 only counted Dalits and Adivasis, who are referred to as scheduled ...

India recorded its castes for the first time in 80 years in 2011 but the data was not made public as there were concerns about its accuracy. Last year two southern states, Andhra Pradesh and ...

Today, many non-Hindus in India, including Muslims, Christians, Jains and Buddhists, also identify with certain castes. There are several main castes, and thousands of sub-castes – from the ...

According to the All India Survey on Higher Education 2021-22, representation of Scheduled Castes in higher education institutions ... highlights stark disparities — 32.6 percent STs, 27.4 percent SCs ...