Many feel that mobilising around caste grievances can be a necessary jolt to an indifferent society. Indeed, leaders from ...

The proposal is so controversial because a caste census “forces the state to confront structural inequalities that are often politically and socially inconvenient,” said Poonam Muttreja ...

NEW DELHI — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world's most populous country. Information ...

So, it came as a surprise when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration announced that caste would be counted in the upcoming national census for the first time since 1931 – when India ...

India's cabinet approved the inclusion of citizens' caste details in its population census on Wednesday, the information minister said, seeking to gain the initiative in a sensitive issue ahead of ...

NEW DELHI – India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world's most populous country.

India will conduct its much-delayed population census in two phases to conclude by March 1, 2027, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, after a delay of six years caused by hurdles created by ...

India will include caste details in its next census By The Associated Press (NPR) NEW DELHI May 2, 2025 7:10 a.m.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country.