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 ...

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It addresses two forms of contractualisation: privately contracting sewage work to informal workers or casual labourers, and the rising contractualisation in civic bodies that compounds caste ...

During the Parliamentary proceedings in 2013, Indian-origin Bhikhu Parekh, a Member of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, remarked: “How do you define caste? Sociologists have tried for 200 ...

Professor Peter Müller and his co-author have been awarded the prestigious ETAPS Test of Time Award for their paper “A Basis for Verifying Multi-threaded Programs”. The ETAPS Test of Time Award has ...

The Centre’s sudden announcement on April 30 to conduct a caste census seems to have thrown poll-bound Bihar’s politics into turmoil. Coming just six months before the Assembly election, the move will ...

What explains the BJP’s change of heart? The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have until recently strongly opposed a caste census, arguing it could fragment the Hindu ...

Rahul Gandhi’s relentless campaign for a caste census has finally prompted the Narendra Modi government to announce that caste enumeration will be part of the next national census. While the ...

The over 70-year-old Census Act will not require changes to allow enumerators carrying out census exercise to seek details of caste from the population, officials said. They said the 1948 law, which ...