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 ...

Kolhapur:Former MLAs Sujit Minchekar and Rajiv Awale led a massive protest march, organised by the Scheduled Caste ...

Following the BJP government's announcement that a caste census will be conducted alongside the general census expected to begin this year, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi renewed his demand to remove ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw ...

Days after the Centre approved the caste census, Bihar's Leader of Opposition (LoP) Tejashwi Yadav has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and welcomed the decision, but has highlighted that this ...

UGC 2026 regulations seek to end caste discrimination in universities but are opposed by the same anti-reservation forces seen in Mandal and 2006 protests. Supreme Court stayed the rules while earlier ...

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 ...

ON GANDHI JAYANTI, a national holiday, Nitish Kumar caused a stir. The chief minister of Bihar, a big and poor north Indian state, chose a day that honours Mohandas Gandhi (who fought against caste ...

On April 30, the Indian government announced a decision that will reverberate through the nation's social fabric for generations: the upcoming national census will include comprehensive caste data for ...

Merit is central to education. But education is not merely about safeguarding existing notions of merit. In its essence, education is about influencing processes of socialisation and ...