The real problem is not the technical alternative, but political will, or rather political ill-will ...

Mayawati's Strong Remarks Against SP's Caste Politics The national president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and former ...

Can Gen Z’s protest bridge India’s caste divide? Ambedkarite politics, education inequality and social justice shape a new ...

The RSS claims to unite Hindus, but caste hierarchies persist within and beyond its ranks. What does Hindu unity mean without equality? Read the analysis.

Bankipur therefore does not announce the demise of caste politics. It signals something subtler: the weakening of the ...

"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 ...

Southeast Asia’s Border Disputes: Wars in Waiting? In the 1990s, the Anthropological Survey of India presented a book that summarized seven years of field research on the country’s most backward ...

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 ...

Enumerators to record caste stated by people, will not try to classify surnames, sub-castes into broader caste categories ...

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JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief editor of LeftWord Books, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A census official collects information from a household in Bonda, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, during the 2011 national ...