The Indian government has long insisted that the social hierarchy has no place in the country, which banned caste ...

The claim that a caste census would deepen caste divisions does not stand scrutiny. Caste identities in India are already ...

Now, the government wants to know more about how the caste system is playing out in modern-day India. The government is set ...

“So, the next census is going to be a historical census.” What is caste? India’s caste system has roots in Hindu scriptures, and historically sorted the population into a hierarchy that ...