A look at the complicated history of caste census
Every Census in independent India from 1951 to 2011 has published data on SCs and STs, but not on other castes.
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Every Census in independent India from 1951 to 2011 has published data on SCs and STs, but not on other castes.
With the Lok Sabha elections approaching, the caste cauldron, as always, is on the boil in Uttar Pradesh -- the only difference being that from caste it has gone on to sub-castes.
With the Lok Sabha elections approaching, the caste cauldron, as always, is on the boil in Uttar Pradesh -- the only difference being that from caste it has gone on to sub-castes.Political parties in Uttar Pradesh are unabashedly organising sub ...
The idea of categorising the Marathas as OBC has its origins in the past. In Vidarbha, Konkan and parts of northern Maharashtra, Maratha-Kunbis have already availed reservation under the OBC category for the past several decades.
Amid a raging row across the country over his cabinet colleague Udhayanidhi Stalin's alleged anti-Sanatan Dharma remarks, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday said his son had expressed certain comments about the "inhuman principles" preached in it and accused the BJP of being