Reservation of jobs and seats in educational institutions, which were based hitherto on caste identity, will now include economic criteria as well. In 2019, the Indian parliament passed the 103rd ...

Anand Teltumbde’s The Caste Con Census brings to the fore a long history of disconnect between claims on the one hand and ...

Show Full Article If one reads beyond the headline, the scrapped quota was not meant for Muslims as a whole. It was for socially and educationally backward classes within Muslims, categories that ...

Days after the Centre approved the caste census, Bihar's Leader of Opposition (LoP) Tejashwi Yadav has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and welcomed the decision, but has highlighted that this ...

The Karnataka cabinet approved 56,000 job recruitments, legislation against caste killings, and the Rohith Vemula Act to combat caste discrimination.

Internal reservation debates intensify as Karnataka government navigates Dalit Minister divisions amid recruitment of 56,432 posts.

A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation urged Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot to intervene in the Scheduled Caste internal reservation issue. They accused the state government of delaying the ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw ...

The Maharashtra government on Tuesday scrapped the process of providing caste verification and validation certificates to Muslims, formally closing a 2014 policy to provide 5% reservations to the ...

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 ...

Manoj Kumar Mahara grew up in a Dalit settlement near Janakpur in a family that could not even afford to send its children to school. Still, he was one of only two students from the community that ...