The Karnataka Legislative Assembly recently approved the Scheduled Castes Sub-Classification Bill, 2025 and turned it into ...

Bihar released the results of a historic caste-based survey in October 2023, mapping the state’s demographic and economic landscape. This comprehensive exercise counted all castes for the first time ...

India’s Supreme Court has intervened in the controversy over the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s plans to expand caste-based reservations (mandatory affirmative action programs) at the ...

Constructively criticising the Constitution is imperative at a time when its survival is threatened by the Hindutva project.

Mumbai has seen countless protests, but the late-August agitation led by Manoj Jarange-Patil was different. Promised as a peaceful sit-in, it swelled into a massive rally that paralysed the city’s ...

Reservation of jobs and seats in educational institutions, which were based hitherto on caste identity, will now include economic criteria as well. In 2019, the Indian parliament passed the 103rd ...

In the book, Teltumbde argues that caste is not a list of categories waiting to be counted but a graded hierarchy that governs access to dignity, education, land, labour, and power. Teltumbde ...

India’s Congress Party-led coalition government has decided that the 2011 decennial census will be a “caste census”—the first in the almost 65 year history of independent India. On August 12, Pranab ...

SIXTY years after India's constitution banned caste discrimination, Hinduism's millennia-old hierarchy retains a tight grip. Lonely-hearts ads in the newspapers are classified by caste and sub-caste.