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

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

The Union Government has finally yielded to the demands of various pressure groups for conducting a caste census side by side ...

The hierarchical identity system continues to divide society — nearly 100 years after calls for its abolition.