The Indian government will collect caste details in its next population census in a policy U-turn that could have sweeping socioeconomic and political ramifications. Information minister Ashwini ...

Rahul Gandhi marked two years as Lok Sabha's Leader of Opposition, vowing to fight for Indians' voices and demanding key reforms like caste census.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A census official collects information from a household in Bonda, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, during the 2011 national ...

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.

On April 30, the BJP-led central government reversed the decades-long practice of excluding caste enumeration for the significantly-delayed, upcoming census. The last time caste data was recorded in ...

PMK MLA Sowmiya Anbumani urged the TN govt to waive all farm loans, citing farmer suicides. She also thanked the govt for the ...

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 ...

More than two-thirds of India's 1.4 billion people are estimated to be on the lower rungs of a millennia-old social hierarchy that divides Hindus by function and ...

Census: Kerala begins its digital data collection process on June 16, including caste and religion details. The exercise faces challenges from migrant workers, closed houses and political debates as ...

Anand Teltumbde, an academic and an activist, has written an unusual book that seeks to combine scholarship with popular political rhetoric that is not always negative. Rhetoric is a way of speaking ...

On August 23, a multi-party delegation of politicians led by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi to press the demand for holding a caste-based census in the ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — 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 ...