In contemporary India, the myth of compulsory community cloaks hierarchy, suppresses the criticism of caste and renders ...

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

Supreme Court pauses UGC caste bias rules, raising questions on power, institutional inequality, and grievance reform. Does ...

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

After Supreme Court’s stay on UGC's new regulations, the debate on equity at central universities has emerged as a major flashpoint. We examine why the new rules are controversial and if there is ...

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 ...

While India is headed to its first caste enumeration since Independence as part of the 2027 Census, many years ago, an ethnographer – a young Andre Beteille – who studied in a small village named ...

On January 13, 2026, the University Grants Commission (UGC) unveiled the Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions Regulations, 2026, an attempt to address discrimination in universities ...

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday renewed his demand for the inclusion of caste column in the census, arguing that a caste-based enumeration would make it easier to ensure rights and ...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a recent University Grants Commission (UGC) regulation after various pleas were filed contending that the Commission adopted a non-inclusionary ...

Bhopal: Former chief minister and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh, chairman of Parliament's Standing Committee on Education, accused the University Grants Commission on Thursday of ignoring the panel's ...

New Delhi [India], January 29 : The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the University Grants Commission (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, notified on January 23, 2026 ...