India's prisons should not discriminate based on caste, including assigning "impure" work to inmates from disadvantaged communities, the Supreme Court has said. The Supreme Court in India ordered ...

Outlook’s upcoming issue, ‘Caste vs Caste’, explores the decades-long debate over sub-categorisation and the creamy layer withing Scheduled Castes, especially in the context of a political ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." But the public commentary around Harris and Vance, two figures of Indian descent in the spotlight of ...

In Yadgir district of Karnataka, fifty Dalit families are reportedly enduring a social boycott after a minor girl's parents filed sexual assault charges against an upper caste man. Following the ...

BJP has allocating one third of the tickets to upper caste non-Jat communities like Brahmins, Punjabi-Khatri, Vaish and Rajputs while the Congress has allocated one third of tickets to Jats and ...

The RSS supports the caste census, stressing it should be used solely for the welfare of underprivileged communities and not for political purposes. This debate is highlighted as the Parliament's ...

Noting that ’there cannot be any stigma attached to the existence, touch or presence of any person’, the Supreme Court has called caste-based discrimination in prisons ‘unconstitutional’. It has asked ...

It was contended that caste-based discrimination continues to persist in the prisons in the country with respect to the division of manual labour, segregation of barracks; and provisions that ...

The person they eventually found voiced his protest at the inter-caste union; Amitabh was a non-Bengali brahmin, while Jaya was a Bengali-brahmin. In a recent episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati, Amitabh ...

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that the caste survey report was recently submitted to the government and he will table it in the cabinet next month. Listen to Story Caste survey aims to ...

The government is considering to include a caste column in the next census. Parties across the political spectrum have been demanding a caste census. Listen to Story Centre considers adding caste ...

Gurugram: Caste dynamics and social engineering appear to have long-played a crucial role in Indian elections, shaping the strategies of political parties across the country. In Haryana, where the ...