Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar claims that the Hindu religion did not originally include castes, attributing ...

Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar on Wednesday claimed that there were no castes in the Hindu religion, which was higher-level ‘varna’ itself, and it was the British who included castes in ...

As per Census- 2011, the number of scheduled castes in India is 20, 13, and 78,086. It is 16.6% of the total population of India. As per Census- 2001; it was 16.2% of the total population of India. A ...

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian government ...

On an all-country scale, the exercise of counting castes was introduced in South Asia by the British during the censuses (which were held across colonized India once every 10 years starting 1881). The ...

Sanjay Jatav believes he has won an important battle in the long war against caste-based discrimination in India. The 26-year-old resident of Basai Babas, a village in Mahamayanagar district of Uttar ...

Activists in Guwahati, Assam, India, hold placards during a protest on Oct. 3, 2020 over the death of a 19-year-old Dalit woman after an alleged gang rape in Uttar Pradesh. A new Bollywood movie is ...

We were looking at the importance of caste in explaining the dominance of the army in Pakistan. At Partition, Pakistan got two-thirds of Punjab, while India got one-third. More Punjabis live in ...

India's caste system is often seen as an institution deeply rooted in traditional Indian culture. This carefully researched study, however, argues that the caste system was at least partly shaped by ...