Across the world, May 1 is set aside to honour the dignity of labour and the long struggle for workers’ rights. In India, ...

An Indian court has denied Christians of Dalit origin legal protections meant for lower caste people, saying a person who ...

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.

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

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

The system thus perpetuates ... Ultimately, a caste census—while necessary—cannot resolve the deeper structural issues plaguing Indian higher education, neither that it is expected to.

The census with caste detail was a colonial invention that is now being reinvented by the post-colonial governance system and given ... will change the course of Indian politics, transform the ...

BJP leader Syed Shahnawaz Hussain lauds the Indian Army's actions against Pakistani threats, underscoring the nation's unity.

The caste system is a rigid social stratification system that dates back thousands of years and is still critical in Indian life and politics, with those at the bottom rung routinely discriminated ...

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