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The Union Government has finally yielded to the demands of various pressure groups for conducting a caste census side by side ...

Benefits include reserved seats from parliament to village council, quotas in higher education and government employment ...

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NEW DELHI – India has approved the inclusion of caste data in its upcoming population census. Although no date has been announced for when the census will begin, the decision marks a significant ...

The Indian government has long insisted that the social hierarchy has no place in the country, which banned caste ...

It’s easy to think of the Varna system as something rigid, something that divides us into neat categories based on our birth.

The hierarchical identity system continues to divide society — nearly 100 years after calls for its abolition.

A caste census will lead to demands for reservations in jobs and education proportional to the population share. Hindu upper castes are anxious that their share will shrink.

Vembu feels people nowadays are more inclined towards ... “We have vilified the kula-jati system so blindly that we forgot it is natural. This class with evolve as a caste and replace the existing ...