Risley had a dramatic influence on the rise of caste ... caste system from all over the subcontinent. In the late 19th century, upper-caste Indian elites sought political reforms and ...

A caste census is expected to shed light on the number of members of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes and could bolster the push for greater representation and power.

The selection of ministers was on the basis of under-representation of a specific ... the Sangh knows exactly how the caste system operates and why it is politically necessary to leverage the ...

Operation Sindoor has laid bare the current shift in public opinion on what is the right response to conflict — blood lust ...

Indians should unite to fight the caste system The move holds significance ... reasoning that all sections of society must get representation in government as per their population.

Besides, the under-representation of teachers and academic ... of renowned Dalit writer Omprakash Valmiki, which talks about caste discrimination, has been removed from Social Science textbooks ...

Mohan Bhagwat’s statement that the caste system should be dismantled to promote national unity has evoked both surprise and suspicion. In its centenary year, is the RSS willing to walk the talk ...

In certain societies it might be the race of the people or the sect one comes from, but in our case it is the caste system. A societal classification that is so deep-rooted in our culture that it ...

Effectively, an American state body tried to define religious beliefs, claiming that the caste system was an integral part of Hinduism. It even assigned religion to an individual based on its own ...

Two structural flaws make the party-list system unfit for real representation: the 20 percent cap, and the absence of ideological grounding. Studies show that nearly 60 percent of Filipino families ...

A caste census is a system where the caste identities of the individuals are also included into the national census. This aids in gaining deeper insights into societal demographics while also ...

reasoning that all sections of society must get representation in government as per their population. By announcing the caste census, the BJP-led government has turned the tables on the Congress ...