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

Investigating caste issues is crucial for understanding India's socioeconomic dynamics and addressing systemic inequalities.

The government's decision in April 2025 on the inclusion of caste enumeration in the upcoming decennial census represents a ...

Caste discrimination remains a persistent issue in Nepal, and members of the Dalit community are still victims of many abuses ...

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 ...

BOOK EXTRACT By making caste census a central issue, Rahul aimed to realign the party’s focus to social equity and ...

Tiwari is attracting many like her—proud Brahmins wounded by India’s reservation system. Her followers are urging her to form ...

Being born in India means inheriting a place in an ancient social system which will dominate much of your life, from where you can live to who you can marry. Now, the government wants to know more ...

Nixing insinuations that caste enumeration would create chasms in society, National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) ...

(CNN) — For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling.