The courts in many cases have ruled that hurling of abuse by taking the name of one's caste would not be an offence under Section 3(1)(r) of the Scheduled Caste ...

Phanishwar Nath Renu, the eminent novelist who used to write on the social-political churning in Bihar, made two important ...

Caste enumeration is a necessary exercise that will inevitably change the composition and politics of this social identity marker. Such a headcount wouldn’t just record reality, but may actually ...

Karnataka will conduct a fresh caste survey to address complaints from several communities who alleged that they were either excluded or underrepresented in the controversial 2015 exercise, chief ...

The Bihar government has formed an Upper Caste Development Commission ahead of the 2025 Assembly elections, signaling a strategic move to strengthen its caste-based voter outreach.

The meeting focused on the national caste census and the party’s strategy moving forward. Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) chiefs and Congress legislators from all the states participated in the ...

A caste census will lead to demands for reservations in jobs and education proportional to the population share. Hindu upper castes are anxious that their share will shrink.

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has said that it remains cautious about the caste census survey being used as a "political tool", according to sources.

Bhubaneswar (Odisha), May 01, 2025(ANI): On Caste Census, Odisha BJP president Manmohan Samal said, "This is a historic decision for the country...The country has gone quite ahead. The country ...

Caste web: Editorial on the way forward for Congress government in wake of Karnataka caste survey A disproportionate disbursal of the slices of the reservation pie could dismantle the Congress’s ...

The Supreme Court of India’s judgment is an important step forward in the fight against caste-based discrimination in India’s prisons ...