Earlier known as Kaibartas, the Mahishyas are a farming community concentrated in the southern districts of West Bengal. The ...

Sikhism, considered one of the youngest religions in the world, has since its inception denounced the caste system. Yet caste ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Chennai, May 17 (IANS) The National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) will submit a detailed report to the Union government within the next two days on the caste-based violence ...

The civic body has covered 58,122 Scheduled Caste households and 14,14,716 non-Scheduled Caste households and collected data so far. To get the survey done in BBMP limits, 8,072 enumerators have ...

The pastor, who comes from the Dalit community, officially referred to as Scheduled Caste people, filed the complaint in January 2021 against a group of people who allegedly abused him, violating ...

Additionally, chief justice-designate B.R. Gavai, who belongs to a scheduled caste, was also elevated to the Supreme Court in 2019. The top court’s disclosure comes in the backdrop of the union ...

The purpose of this exercise was to prepare empirical data on 101 castes in the scheduled caste list, he said. Data points include socio-economic, political, educational, and employment-related ...

Credit: Wikipedia/Information and public relations ... Since the first decadal census in independent India in 1951, only Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) numbers have been counted ...

Speaking at the press conference, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said, "We have started a caste-wise census of Scheduled Castes today. Justice Nagamohan Das is leading the commission to ...

The Karnataka Government is set to launch a survey of Scheduled Caste (SC) communities to get details of the sub-castes constituting the parent groups. The survey will be carried out in three ...

Members of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes who convert to Christianity cannot invoke provisions of the Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe Prevention of Atrocities Act as the caste system is ...

People can also self-declare their caste details online until May 23. "This data will help us ensure fair internal reservation among Scheduled Castes, based on real population figures," the Chief ...