Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) (NCP (SP)) MP Supriya Sule's recent interview has reignited the debate on whether caste or economic criteria should be the basis for reservations. In ...

Once the numbers come out, they fear that the OBCs would start to demand, and articulate what they are lacking, why they are ...

India’s Supreme Court has intervened in the controversy over the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s plans to expand caste-based reservations (mandatory affirmative action programs) at the ...

Bihar released the results of a historic caste-based survey in October 2023, mapping the state’s demographic and economic landscape. This comprehensive exercise counted all castes for the first time ...

Can the law deny protection against caste-based discrimination simply because an individual has changed religion?

The Congress on Monday (May 5, 2025) reiterated its demand for the Government to announce a timeline and roadmap for the caste survey, remove the 50% cap on reservation and implement Article 15(5) of ...

India’s Congress Party-led coalition government has decided that the 2011 decennial census will be a “caste census”—the first in the almost 65 year history of independent India. On August 12, Pranab ...

SIXTY years after India's constitution banned caste discrimination, Hinduism's millennia-old hierarchy retains a tight grip. Lonely-hearts ads in the newspapers are classified by caste and sub-caste.