Caste remains crucial in Tamil Nadu elections, influencing candidate selection by major parties DMK and AIADMK despite social ...

Nearly a hundred years after Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar’s famous treatise, The Annihilation of Caste, who would have thought that India would turn a full circle, or should I say turn turtle? For today ...

Kerala’s voting patterns are shaped by caste blocs, religious communities and regional divides, but within a stable two-front ...

Demand for OBC quotas, even within women's reservation, is not new. It is, in fact, a primary reason why women's quota ...

Tamil Nadu's political landscape sees caste-based parties aligning with major Dravidian outfits to gain legislative ...

In Muslim-heavy constituencies, especially along the border belt, deletion is being disproportionately routed through a ...

Assam Congress MP and the party's Lok Sabha deputy leader Gaurav Gogoi launched a scathing attack on the Modi government ...

If Zelliot established the importance of studying anti‑caste movements as movements, Gail Omvedt expanded this vision by connecting caste revolt to culture, peasant politics, and class relations.

NEW DELHI — India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The first census in 16 years will be conducted digitally and include controversial questions about ...

Once again, caste is casting a shadow over India’s politics. Caste-based quotas in education and government employment are supposed to benefit India’s most deprived, but in reality they have hardened, ...