A provocative new book warns that counting castes may entrench them further instead of dismantling the system.

Data from the National Family Health Survey by the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare conducted between 2019 and 2021 shows ...

Journalist Meena Kotwal (center) issues a statement from Silgir village in India where she joined a protest for indigenous people's rights. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become ...

NARSINGHBHANPUR, India -- For 21st-century India, eager to modernize and spread its economic wings, the caste system is its ball and chain, holding down the lower castes while the higher ones get rich ...

A recent study from the Rutgers School of Communication and Information found that the social media platform X is often used ...

NEW DELHI — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world's most populous country. Information ...

With Dalit Chief Justice Bhushan Ramakrishna Gavai retiring, India's top court will be down to one Dalit and one woman — with ...

Suprakash Majumdar is a Dalit journalist. He is based in Delhi and writes on social justice issues from the perspective of India's caste system. A new Bollywood movie is galvanizing Hindu audiences ...

There has been a tussle within the Congress government in Karnataka amid speculation over a power-sharing agreement concerning Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy, DK Shivakumar. Moily said the ...

Chief Justice of India BR Gavai on Sunday affirmed that he is still for exclusion of creamy layer in reservations to ...