Author Sanjana Ramachandran considers her place in the shifting world order as a ‘Hindu Brahmin Indian woman’, among other ...

I do not want that our loyalty as Indians should be to any particular community. I want all people to be Indian first, Indian ...

Owing to the intermixture of Indian indentured labourers with other caste groups and racial ethnicities, caste now operates ...

Caste endogamy serves as a key mechanism for sustaining caste hierarchies, conferring upper-caste women a high ritual purity status along with certain material benefits (Velaskar 2016). These ...

Bombay HC fined Ashish Savant ₹5 lakh for a fraudulent caste certificate, invalidating his claim after a complaint during the 2024 elections.

In a shocking example of caste discrimination and prejudice based on caste hierarchy, 40 members of an Odisha family were forced to shave their heads as part of a 'purification' ritual after a ...

Conducting the caste census, the first after the country’s independence, in an atmosphere of mistrust will only deepen that deficit in the political domain ...

NEW DELHI: Calling for more clarity on caste based census, the Congress on Tuesday urged the government to clarify the reasoning behind the low budget allocatio ...

It will enumerate caste across the country for the first time since 1931. It will do so in a vastly different India, one that is digitally administered, politically assertive, and socially more ...

BENGALURU: A glaring discrepancy in the number of individuals claiming Scheduled Caste (SC) benefits under the Budaga Jangama or Beda Jangama category sparked serious concerns among experts. At a ...