A political firestorm has erupted in Karnataka over the missing original caste census report prepared by the Kantharaj Commission. Opposition parties are fiercely criticizing the government for ...

Rising contractual employment in sanitation work draws upon and reproduces historical inequalities of caste and class in urban India. In October 2024, Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), India’s ...

Chikkamagaluru: Former chairman of the Karnataka State Permanent Backward Classes Commission, K Jayaprakash Hegde, claimed that it was not a caste census but a socio-economic and educational ...

Senior RSS functionary and BJP leaders attended the screening of documentary titled The Caste Rush directed by IIT alumnus and U.S.-trained filmmaker Nikhil Singh Rajput in Delhi on Friday (April ...

The release of the population data of castes/sub-castes in Karnataka, as part of the Socio-Economic and Educational Survey (popularly called caste census), has generated much political heat.

Petitioners have argued that Malhotra falsely claimed to belong to the ‘Sunar’ caste, while records indicate her family’s association with the Jat community. They cited historical ...

Addressing a press conference at the SP headquarters in Lucknow, Yadav said, “DGP sahab should speak less; at the very least, the chief minister should address this.” A day after Uttar Pradesh ...

Wilkerson won a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 and is known for her books "The Warmth of Other Suns" and "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents." Her talk will be held at the Hotel Champlain on April 30 ...

“How does our body carry memories of caste, control, or care?” “What parts of your identity do people ignore or erase?” “If you could paint your truth boldly, what would it look like?” Following these ...

A new article by UC Santa Barbara sociologist Dana Kornberg offers a framework for understanding how race, caste and institutional access shape not only what people earn but the economic systems ...

sexual harassment and discrimination on the basis of caste, gender and disability among other biases in institutions of higher... The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on ...

Leaked portions of the yet-to-be-released report suggested that major caste groups like the Lingayats and Vokkaligas may have smaller populations than earlier assumed, leading to significant angst ...