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India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ...
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday weighed in on the caste census debate, asserting that the focus should ...
Union Minister and West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar on Friday underscored the importance of expediting the caste ...
Acharya Prashant highlights the dual nature of caste census data, emphasizing its potential for identifying marginalized ...
Acharya Prashant, founder of PrashantAdvait Foundation, emphasizes the intention behind the caste census as crucial. While it ...
By announcing the caste census, the BJP-led government has turned the tables on the Congress and blunted its most popular narrative in challenging the Centre. Shutterstock New Delhi: The Indian ...
The central government on Wednesday announced that caste enumeration will be a part of the National Census. Union Minister for Railways and Information & Broadcasting, Electronics & Information ...
Who gets to build wealth — and who gets left behind? A new article by UC Santa Barbara sociologist Dana Kornberg offers a framework for understanding how race, caste and institutional access shape not ...
On April 11, a nearly 10-year-old Socio-Economic and Educational Survey (popularly called the Caste Census) prepared by the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes was dusted off and ...
Bengaluru: A caste cannot be grouped in one category for reservation in education and another for employment quota, the high court has observed in a recent judgment. In his order, Justice Suraj ...
Chikkamagaluru: Former chairman of the Karnataka State Permanent Backward Classes Commission, K Jayaprakash Hegde, claimed that it was not a caste census but a socio-economic and educational ...