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.

Caste enumeration will be included in the upcoming national census. Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced this decision in a briefing. The BJP criticised Congress for historically opposing the ...

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 ...

Caste Census: Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA), on 30 April approved the enumeration of castes in the upcoming Census — a surprising decision that ...

The last time the census in India included questions on caste was in 1931, when the British ruled the country. In fact, the British - for obvious reasons - did so in every census. Census ...

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge welcomed the Centre’s decision to include caste enumeration in the upcoming census, urging timely execution with adequate funding. He emphasized Congress's ...

Caste Census in India: In a significant move, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced on Wednesday that the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs has decided to include caste enumeration in the ...

So India will resume doing what it should never have stopped doing, namely, finding out how many people there are in each caste. Not that it had stopped entirely, of course. It had kept counting ...

While it will provide a lot of information which was not available earlier, the broad contours of India’s caste composition are not exactly unknown The next census will also enumerate caste data ...

NEW DELHI: In a politically tactical move, with an eye on upcoming Bihar assembly elections, the Centre on Wednesday announced its decision to include caste enumeration in the forthcoming census ...

A decade later in 1961, the central government asked states to conduct their own surveys and prepare state-specific lists of OBCs if they wished so. Over six decades later now and after demands ...