The transition in Bihar comes at a moment when the nature of caste politics is mutating in the hinterland ...

Tejashwi also faces challenges as RJD has to build second-rung leadership of non-Yadav OBC and EBC groups and address ...

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 ...

On Thursday, the politician announced that he would give up the chief ministership of Bihar to become a Rajya Sabha member.

If the prerequisite of the imagination of a decent society is the logic of democracy, then the logic of caste absolutely militates against it. Democracy broadly presupposes equal moral worth of all ...

Caste, once again, is casting its shadow over India’s politics. Caste-based “reservations” (reserved places) in education and government employment are supposed to benefit India’s most deprived, but ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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