Despite his caste-consciousness and critical depiction of the social prejudices of colonial Bengal, he never directly opposed them; in his real life, he was an upholder of traditional Hindu ...

The caste system — a hierarchical, hereditary, and exploitative social system based on occupations — originated in ancient Indian society. Though predominant among the Hindus, who make up four ...

The country needs to hear the truth. Whose government was there in 1951 and whose system was in force... In 1931, the last caste census was done that is before Independence” he said. Also Read ...

Presenting the biggest obstacle to India’s embrace of modernity, the caste system divides Hindus into rigid categories that govern every aspect of life. The last successful exercise to record ...

In that sense, Shekhar Gupta is courageous to have stuck to his guns. Gupta argues that caste enumeration will inevitably snowball into caste-based welfarism, eventually culminating in private ...

“You should have data about to what extent the caste system has been eroded. There, the mind has not yet been applied,” he said. He also noted a reluctance among some proponents of the caste ...

She said that despite being a Brahmin, Basaveshwara "rose above" the caste system and talked about equality for the backward classes and Dalits. "Today is Guru Basaveshwara Jayanti...we call him ...

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.

Wo avyastha hai. Kabhi ye jati vyastha rahi hogi, wo upyukt rahi hogi, nahi rahi hogi....aaj uska vichar karne ka koi karan nahi hai,” (They say caste system....where is the system. That is a ...

In 1950, the government reserved social benefits intended for Dalit people exclusively for Dalit Hindus, viewing the caste system as a reality of Hinduism. This order was subsequently amended twice to ...

By announcing the caste census, the BJP-led government has turned the tables on the Congress and blunted its most popular narrative in challenging the Centre. Shutterstock New Delhi: The Indian ...

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 ...