The claim that a caste census would deepen caste divisions does not stand scrutiny. Caste identities in India are already ...

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

India will conduct its first official caste census since independence, the government announced on Wednesday, a move likely to have far-reaching consequences for its politics and contentious ...

Anjum Manhas India, characterized by vast diversity, carries the complex legacy of the caste system-a centuries-old social structure that continues to influence its political, economic, and social ...

When imagining India, curry, Holi colors or Bollywood immediately ... a third of Indian residents identify themselves as advanced, or general castes, including almost 4% of Brahmins. Approximately 70% ...

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

While it's a strict system, there are examples of people moving out of their castes — India's constitution was written by BR ...

India will include caste details in its next population census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous ...

A constitutional review, grounded in data and dialogue, is not just timely but imperative to uphold the Constitution’s vision ...