Periyar spoke of caste abolition for decades. This collection of his speeches shows how his self-respect model still left Dalit oppression unresolved.

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara has questioned the Centre’s approach to the caste census, saying the exercise could fail to address social inequalities if the method of collecting caste ...

Yogi Adityanath's political appeal in Uttar Pradesh, the piece argues, extends beyond caste arithmetic to renunciation, tough governance, security, development and cultural identity. His combination ...

The Tamil Nadu Congress will hold public meetings and discussions across 10 major cities as part of its statewide campaign.

A 'shuddhikaran' ceremony held at Haldwani's Ramlila Maidan days after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's rally has triggered a fierce political battle between the BJP and Congress. While Rahul ...

In a landmark policy shift, the Government of India has announced it will conduct a caste survey alongside Census 2021, breaking from its long-held stance. The decision, taken at a Cabinet meeting ...

On October 2, the government of the eastern Indian state of Bihar released the report of a survey on the state’s population by caste – a traditional hierarchical division in Hindu society. The state ...

With around five months left for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the BJP is focusing on governance, development and ...

In the 1990s, the Anthropological Survey of India presented a book that summarized seven years of field research on the country’s most backward castes – the volume was titled “Scheduled Castes.” The ...

JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief editor of LeftWord Books, and ...

New Delhi: All castes were enumerated during census exercises carried out in British India between 1881 and 1931, but at the time of the first census of independent India in 1951, the then government ...

"Votebank" politics Figuring out which party can win in Uttar Pradesh depends on complex caste equations and what political strategists call “votebank” politics. Or, as the saying goes: It’s not how ...