HYDERABAD: Caste census, one of the Congress’ pre-poll promises to assess socio-economic, employment, political and caste status of the people, kicked off in the state on Wednesday. It is being done ...

BAGALKOTE: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday insisted that the Centre should conduct a socio-economic survey as the caste census alone will not suffice. In a major decision, the ...

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 ...

Per-capita cost to rise 40 percent from 2011 levels as government clears Rs 11,718 crore census with caste enumeration and ...

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and demanded an up-to-date caste census. In his letter, Mr Kharge said in the absence of an updated caste census, a ...

Indian law students are reporting for JURIST on law-related developments in and affecting India. Here Apoorv Vats, a second-year student at NALSAR University of Law, files from Hyderabad. The Supreme ...

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 ...

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (second from left) inaugurates the caste-based census in his ancestral village of Bakhtiarpur in Bihar, India, April 15, 2023. Credit: Wikipedia/Information and ...

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