Vijay Sai Reddy asked whether only people from the Reddy and Kamma communities are considered eligible to become Chief ...

Yogi Adityanath's political appeal in Uttar Pradesh, the piece argues, extends beyond caste arithmetic to renunciation, tough ...

Amid intense speculation over a possible leadership change in Karnataka, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's decision to accept the Backward Classes Commission survey report a day before his expected ...

The CJP’s cross-caste student movement faces a challenge from anti-reservation groups as caste politics tests its unity ahead ...

A 'shuddhikaran' ceremony held at Haldwani's Ramlila Maidan days after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's rally has ...

Sources said the Ministry’s offer was made at the meeting chaired by Registrar General of India Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan, and ...

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 ...

Kharge and Gandhi said they do not accept the caste census being conducted in the current manner and urged the government to ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...