It also took note of a government order issued pursuant to earlier court directions, recognising that caste-based rallies ...

Barwani (Madhya Pradesh): BJP Rajya Sabha MP Sumer Singh Solanki on Monday expressed concern over the use of fake caste ...

The  ruling in Keshaw Mahto vs State of Bihar raises a difficult but necessary question: can caste humiliation be legally recognised if it does not announce itself in explicit words, but lives on ...

Chalam has advocated for caste enumeration in the population census. Mr. Chalam was speaking at the ‘caste census - ...

The Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) recently disposed of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea filed in 2013 seeking a ban on all caste-based political rallies and a direction to ...

The reservation system in India was originally conceived as a temporary measure to uplift historically disadvantaged communities. It was meant to provide equal opportunities in education, employment, ...

Indian society rests on a graded hierarchy called caste, which Dr BR Ambedkar described as “an ascending scale of reverence ...

The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday held that no individual or political party can be completely barred from contesting elections under the present legal framework merely on the ...

The steep rise in caste discrimination complaints in Indian universities has revealed a troubling paradox. Even as regulatory frameworks expand and institutions report impressive disposal rates, ...

Newport tells fun anecdotes of highly productive individuals who traded daily busyness for creating a lifetime body of work.

The origin of the caste system does not lie in religious ideas of purity and pollution, racial differences, tribal or Harappan customs — or even the British census, as recent social media commentary ...

Yengde is right that India cannot fix sanitation without confronting caste psychology India also cannot fix sanitation ...