It’s easy to think of the Varna system as something rigid, something that divides us into neat categories based on our birth.

India has the longest history of affirmative action programs in the world and they have become the center of heated ...

India's caste system is 3,000 years old and continues to determine the opportunities that most of the country's 1.4 billion people have, from work to marriage.

The hierarchical identity system continues to divide society — nearly 100 years after calls for its abolition.

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.

Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy in India and is critical to Indian life and politics. There are hundreds of ...

India will include caste details in its next population census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and ...

India will conduct its first official caste census since independence, the government announced yesterday, a move likely to have far-reaching consequences for its politics and contentious ...

The Bihar caste survey – the first in independent India to successfully enumerate all castes – last year found that OBCs comprise 63.13% of the state, SCs formed 19.65% and STs 1.68%.

Caste Census in India: Casteism has been a fixed part of India's social fabric for ages, influencing access to resources, education, and opportunities. The country's made some headway in pushing ...