The last eight decades have seen caste transmogrify into newer and more entrenched forms, regulating the lives of mns from accident of birth to moment of death ...

When it reduces national politics to a demand for sectional benefits and religious or caste assertions, the Opposition ...

"Votebank" politics Figuring out which party can win in Uttar Pradesh depends on complex caste equations and what political strategists call “votebank” politics. Or, as the saying goes: It’s not how ...

On October 2, the government of the eastern Indian state of Bihar released the report of a survey on the state’s population by caste – a traditional hierarchical division in Hindu society. The state ...

In a landmark policy shift, the Government of India has announced it will conduct a caste survey alongside Census 2021, breaking from its long-held stance. The decision, taken at a Cabinet meeting ...

Speculation over renaming the JD(U) and a possible merger with the BJP has intensified questions about Nitish Kumar's ...

New Delhi: All castes were enumerated during census exercises carried out in British India between 1881 and 1931, but at the time of the first census of independent India in 1951, the then government ...

Considering the gap between increasing group representation and expanding individual opportunities.Reading India through ...

Community leaders, including a Christian pastor, have cautiously welcomed a northern Indian state’s move to ban caste-based political rallies, arguing it will undermine grassroots struggles by the ...

NEW DELHI: In a surprise decision, the Centre on Wednesday announced that the caste census will be included in the next national census exercise in a “transparent manner”. Making the announcement at a ...

Ketaki won the award for a dissertation entitled "Secularizing Caste: Mapping Nineteenth-Century Anti-caste Politics in Western India," completed at the University of Minnesota. CISA is delighted to ...

Distinguished Indian sociologist and public intellectual Dipankar Gupta, formerly a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, speaks to The Daily Star about the historical evolution of caste, the ...