For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still ... the first time since 1931 – when India was still a British colony. Counting caste will “ensure that our social ...

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much ... national census for the first time since 1931 – when India was still a British colony. Counting caste ...

Presenting the biggest obstacle to India’s embrace of modernity, the caste system divides Hindus into ... conducted by British colonial rulers in 1931, threw up more than 4000 answers.

Andy Mukherjee is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies and financial services in Asia. Previously, he worked for Reuters, the Straits Times and Bloomberg News. For the first ...

According to modern research (ref. Caste System in India, Wikipedia) the caste system was a British perversion of India’s traditional social categories, influenced by the Spanish “casta” or ...