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

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

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, was elected head of the Roman Catholic Church. But what sets him apart is not that ...

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

Speaking on the Scheduled Caste survey being conducted by the state government, experts say there is an urgent need for ...

In India, caste oppression is a persistent and insidious reality that continues to affect millions, even in communities that formally reject caste divisions. The Christian community, which upholds the ...

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

At the grassroots level — the gram panchayats, blocks and districts — data are only generated and fed into the system for use ...

Caste is one form of social linkage that has mutated over centuries. From being fairly flexible and affording some mobility ...

Bihar Congress chief Rajesh Kumar highlights unemployment, migration, and a failing education system as key issues for the ...

At least 17 people were killed and several injured in a fire that broke out at a building near the historic Charminar ...