India's caste system is 3,000 years old and continues to determine the opportunities that most of the country's 1.4 billion ...

A caste census will lead to demands for reservations in jobs and education proportional to the population share. Hindu upper castes are anxious that their share will shrink.

While anti-caste movements attribute the deeply entrenched and codified chaturvarna (four divisions) system that defines Hindu society ... ‘Shudras in Ancient India’: “In point of time ...

New Delhi — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and ...

Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy in India and ... pressed the government to count caste in a new census. Modi’s Hindu nationalist party has in the past opposed the idea of counting ...