Cabinet Committee decides on caste census for transformative governance, addressing inequities and enhancing democratic accountability in India.

In the 1990s, the Anthropological Survey of India presented a book that summarized seven years of field research on the country’s most backward castes – the volume was titled “Scheduled Castes.” The ...

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Caste Census News: The government is facing a major question regarding the caste census. Deliberations are ongoing on how ...

Options are an open-ended format with respondents self-declaring castes, or a drop-down menu of recognised castes. Among those with objections is RSS ...

Why do people defend social systems that oppress them? Why do the marginalized sometimes work to uphold structures and arrangements that limit their potential? These questions are not just ...

If the construction of the “model minority” myth for Indian Americans rides on the back of their alleged casteless-ness, then their anti-Blackness, or at least a deliberate effort to separate ...

Three-quarters of the way into Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson describes the humiliation suffered by Black passengers on a steamship in the American South before the Civil War.

The thorough and comprehensive Burns Halperin Report 2022 awakens the somnolent to America’s caste substructure. The report defines female as “any artist who identifies herself as a woman.” It defines ...