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

The hierarchical identity system continues to divide the nation of 1.4 billion people almost 100 years after calls for its ...