In an exclusive interview, BJP OBC Morcha president K. Laxman defends the timing of the caste census, critiques the Congress’ ...

A caste census will lead to demands for reservations in jobs and education proportional to the population share. Hindu upper ...

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

Caste has always been one of Indian realities that people say is very bad but nevertheless embrace. It’s hard to say who exhibits this duality the most — politicians, sociologists, social ...

The fact is few people now argue against a caste census. A section of the Hindu ... will change the course of Indian politics, transform the structures of dominance, and the relations between ...

or outdated data on how many people belong to them. Successive Indian governments have resisted updating caste data, arguing that it could lead to social unrest. But its supporters say detailed ...

As the name suggests, caste census is a caste-based survey of the country’s population aimed to determine the exact number of people of each ... a ploy to divide the Indian society, particularly ...