The central government has announced to conduct caste census in the upcoming census. Caste census is the process of collecting data on the basis of caste of individuals during the national census.

Julius C. Jefferson Jr.’s President’s Program at the American Library Association’s 2021 Annual Conference and Exhibition Virtual on June 27 included the 2021 Awards Presentation and featured speaker ...

The word "caste" often comes up to describe India's system of social hierarchy, which has segmented society for centuries. But when Martin Luther King Jr. visited the country in 1959, he saw ...

In Pakistan, caste is often treated as someone else's problem. It is spoken of as a Hindu matter, an Indian disease, or an old village habit that modern Pakistan has supposedly outgrown. This is a ...

Caste-based discrimination is not just an ‘Indian social issue’. It is a global phenomenon, seen ‘from Britain to Bahrain, Canada to South Africa.’ Join us at this Sussex Development Lecture to hear ...

Residents of a Delhi slum fill buckets with water to clean mud from their huts after a monsoon rainfall in July. “Throughout human history,” Isabel Wilkerson writes, “three caste systems have stood ...

“With an old house, the work is never done, and you don’t expect it to be,” writes Isabel Wilkerson in her new book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” “America is an old house.” It is a simple ...

Census, survey, or enumeration... whatever the suffix, for the first time since 1931 India will count the men, women, and children in each of the hundreds of castes and sub-castes that make up its ...

Vikrant Bhise, "Quest of Existence of Being" (2023), acrylic on canvas, 72 x 120 inches (all images courtesy the artist and Anant Art Gallery) NOIDA, India — A pyramidal arrangement of one hundred ...

With India in the middle of the world’s largest democratic exercise, universities are under the spotlight as never before. Over the past five years – as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by the ...