The Thursday’s meeting marks the latest in a series of delays by the Congress-led government in deciding on the caste census report ... Classes (OBCs), the Kuruba community alone comprised ...

She strongly condemned all forms of terrorist violence and urged for unity beyond religion and caste. Sana emphasized that innocent lives should never be lost due to political or ideological ...

Over six decades later now and after demands from several quarters and various parties, the government has now decided to include caste enumeration in the next nationwide census. The last ...

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. The Indian ...

The story so far: The Union Cabinet has decided that the next Census will include questions on caste to its enumeration of India’s population, for the first time in almost a century. The ...

Caste Census: Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Central government has announced to carry out a caste-based census across the country, meeting a long-standing demand of the opposition INDIA bloc ...

NEW DELHI – India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world's most populous country. Information ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country.

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 Union government has sprung a surprise by clearing the inclusion of caste enumeration in the long-awaited census. BJP leaders had been equivocal about it, sometimes stridently opposing it and ...

The last time the census in India included questions on caste was in 1931, when the British ruled the country. In fact, the British - for obvious reasons - did so in every census. Census ...