Media accounts simultaneously cast her as victim and avenger, until a life shaped by caste violence and gendered oppression ...

The ruling party has been navigating complex challenges, from discontent among its core upper-caste support base to fear of ...

Nearly a hundred years after Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar’s famous treatise, The Annihilation of Caste, who would have thought that India would turn a full circle, or should I say turn turtle? For today ...

NEW DELHI — India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The first census in 16 years will be conducted digitally and include controversial questions about ...

The controversy over the 2026 UGC anti-discrimination regulations reveals the uneasy intersection of caste power, electoral ...

Anand Teltumbde’s The Caste Con Census brings to the fore a long history of disconnect between claims on the one hand and ...

The Supreme Court’s stay on the UGC’s 2026 equity regulations reveals deep institutional discomfort with recognising caste ...

Community leaders, including a Christian pastor, have cautiously welcomed a northern Indian state’s move to ban caste-based political rallies, arguing it will undermine grassroots struggles by the ...

A new political debate is emerging in the Telugu states around caste and political power. Critics argue that a few numerically small caste groups have dominated political leadership for decades, ...

While Akhilesh Yadav’s PDA politics has made it necessary for the party to try and consolidate its position among the ...

Once again, caste is casting a shadow over India’s politics. Caste-based quotas in education and government employment are supposed to benefit India’s most deprived, but in reality they have hardened, ...

Bengaluru, Feb 22 (PTI) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Sunday engaged in a sharp ...