Lucknow: After promising caste enumeration in the next census, the BJP is working on a strategy to redefine the ‘PDA' — from the opposition's ‘Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak' (Backward, Dalit, Minority) ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Chennai, Nov 8 (IANS) The Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) has rescheduled its statewide protest demanding a caste-based census in Tamil Nadu to December 12, its founder S. Ramadoss ...

The Indian government's decision to include caste enumeration in the upcoming census aims to consolidate Hindu unity and counter attempts to divide the population along caste lines. Sources suggest ...

Barabanki/Lucknow, November 11: Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday asserted that no sect, religion, or caste can ever be greater than the nation. “Our foremost goal must be Nation First. When ...

The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has ironed out its seat-sharing differences in Bihar ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls after days of back-and-forth between its constituents. BJP and JD(U) ...

Leading scholar Suraj Milind Yengde shines a light on the Dalit experience internationally, from indentured labourers in the nineteenth-century Caribbean to present-day migrant workers in the Middle ...

Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday termed the Union Cabinet's decision to include caste enumeration in the national census a "100 per cent victory" of the unity of 90 per cent of ...

Suprakash Majumdar is a Dalit journalist. He is based in Delhi and writes on social justice issues from the perspective of India's caste system. A new Bollywood movie is galvanizing Hindu audiences ...

The Uttar Pradesh government has issued a sweeping order prohibiting caste-based political rallies and public displays of caste identity, calling them a threat to “public order” and “national unity," ...

In late January, California State University added caste to its non-discrimination policy. With more than 437,000 students and 44,000 employees statewide, it is the largest academic institution to do ...

The caste system has existed in some form in India for at least 3,000 years. It is a social hierarchy passed down through families, and it can dictate the professions a person can work in as well as ...

Three-quarters of the way into Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson describes the humiliation suffered by Black passengers on a steamship in the American South before the Civil War.