painting caste as an inherently immoral system, and portraying “upper castes” as the exclusive perpetrators of discrimination against “lower castes”. The Hindu Manifesto challenges these ...

A caste census will lead to demands for reservations in jobs and education proportional to the population share. Hindu upper castes are anxious that their share will shrink.

India is set to conduct its first caste-based census in years, and for the first time, Muslim communities will also be asked ...

The Indian government's decision to include caste enumeration in the upcoming census aims to consolidate Hindu unity and counter attempts to divide the population along caste lines. Sources ...

Wo avyastha hai. Kabhi ye jati vyastha rahi hogi, wo upyukt rahi hogi, nahi rahi hogi....aaj uska vichar karne ka koi karan nahi hai,” (They say caste system....where is the system. That is a ...

The Hindu reported first on August 22, 2024 that the Union government was actively considering caste enumeration. Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on X that “the Congress and its allies ...

Mohan Bhagwat’s statement that the caste system should be dismantled to promote national unity has evoked both surprise and suspicion. In its centenary year, is the RSS willing to walk the talk ...

The BJP-led government on Wednesday pulled the rug out of the Opposition’s major plank based on caste Census by approving caste enumeration in the country’s upcoming national Census.

With the NDA government agreeing to conduct a caste census across the country, the question now being asked is, how will it help, and what can the Central and State governments do with the data?

The count is likely lead to demands to raise the country's quotas that reserve government jobs, college admissions and ...

The Indian government will collect caste details ... religion of Hinduism, or include Islam, Christianity and Sikhism, which in India are equally tainted by casteism and the caste system.