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 ...

The caste system — a hierarchical, hereditary, and exploitative social system based on occupations — originated in ancient Indian society. Though predominant among the Hindus, who make up four ...

“You should have data about to what extent the caste system has been eroded. There, the mind has not yet been applied,” he said. He also noted a reluctance among some proponents of the caste ...

Numbers are the basis of governance; without them, the state loses confidence. In government offices, one may see that every item — electrical panels, fans, chairs — is meticulously numbered ...

Some would find this naïve. More to the point, objections to the caste census ignore the possibility that the findings of such a census could mark the beginning of the end of caste politics.

The RSS may in theory be ideologically disapproving of giving primacy to the fragmented reality of Hindu identity, but in practical terms, the Sangh knows exactly how the caste system operates and ...

The BJP started discussing the issue with the top brass of the party’s ideological fount, the RSS, after last year’s general elections, party leaders said The Union government’s unexpected ...

“At the root of this crime is the deeply entrenched hierarchical caste system in India, and ironically, this most dishonourable act goes by the name of honour-killing,” the court note ...

AICC general secretary K C Venugopal also urged state units to convey the party’s historical and ongoing commitments at the grassroots level, including the leadership role played by Rahul Gandhi.

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman dismissed the DMK government's claim that the Centre’s decision to include caste enumeration in the upcoming census exercise was a "hard-earned victory" and ...

In July 2021, the minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai told Parliament that ``the government of India decided it as a matter of policy not to enumerate caste-wise population other than ...