On a warm summer morning in 2025, a sea of quiet but defiant protestors gathered at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. They weren’t asking for privilege. They were ask ...

Caste, a word foreign in origin but deeply immersed in India's identity today, has travelled centuries and continents. From colonial classification to present-day politics, it continues to define ...

The modern caste system developed in India. The fragmentation of the Mughal Empire led, in the centuries before the British Raj, to the spread of caste archetypes as a way to cement political ...

India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The Home Ministry announced plans to ...

Is it some kind of pre-modern division of labour ... Narendra Modi’s agreement to include caste in India’s census surprised many, given his previous views. AP Rahul Gandhi, the main ...

With the Centre giving the nod to include caste data in the upcoming population census, the long-standing debate over a caste census has once again taken centre stage. Here’s a comprehensive look at ...

Dalits were burned alive in Kilvenmani village in present-day Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu following a labourers’ ...

Taking to X, Karkala MLA and BJP leader V Sunil Kumar accused Siddaramaiah of 'fooling' people for the past one decade on the issue.

The visionary social reformer and law minister who died in 1956 dedicated his life to abolishing the long-held caste hierarchy in India. Ambedkar was known for leading movements to assert rights ...

The evils of caste are legendary – and mythical. According to modern research (ref. Caste System in India, Wikipedia) the caste system was a British perversion of India’s traditional social ...