The Narendra Modi government’s decision to include caste enumeration in the next Census is one that is bold, transformative and commendable. Counting caste is not capitulation to identity politics.

Former chairman of Karnataka Bhovi Development Corporation, G.V. Seetharamu, has raised questions over the classification of Bhovis as sub-caste instead of main caste during the ongoing survey of ...

In Sabarkantha district, three siblings have been charged with fraudulently securing government jobs using forged Scheduled Tribe caste certificates. The two brothers and a sister, originally ...

Sapkal stated that the caste census is not merely a headcount exercise but a major step towards achieving social justice. He highlighted that in Maharashtra, the OBC population, previously ...

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BBMP races to cover 24 lakh households for Caste Census in six days While the BBMP enumerators plan to visit every household in the city, the survey questionnaire is designed exclusively for ...

“Already, this Court has held that caste cannot be a criterion in front of God," the Court said. The Court was hearing a petition filed by one Ela Pandiyarajan, who approached it alleging that people ...

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New Delhi: The Modi government’s decision to include caste enumeration in the upcoming census exercise has opened up a pandora’s box within the BJP. While its upper-caste leaders have expressed ...

An exclusive conversation with the Union minister on why the Modi government included a caste survey in the upcoming Census and the intricacies of the exercise Listen to Story BJP includes caste ...

It was conducted at a time when the capacity of the census to deal with a complex social system like caste was questionable, especially in princely states, which accounted for more than one-third of ...