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 ...
Suvendu Adhikari caste has become a major talking point after BJP formed its first government in West Bengal. Here’s which ...
The party is expected to use the upcoming organisational reshuffle and appointments to vacant posts in boards and ...
Follow TNM's WhatsApp channel for news updates and story links.For the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), western Tamil Nadu ...
The Tamil Nadu Assembly election is scheduled for April 23. Let’s examine the importance of caste coalitions and Dravidian politics in the state.
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
Congress alleges govt is pushing the caste census into “cold storage”, a charge gaining traction after recent special ...
A wide range of Indian languages employ the retroflex ṇa. In my mother tongue, Gujarati, the consonant is shared across caste ...