Maharashtra minister Ganesh Naik stated attempts were made to target CM Devendra Fadnavis due to his Brahmin identity.

BJP leader Ganesh Naik defends CM Fadnavis against caste-based criticism amid rising political tensions in Maharashtra, especially from Maratha activists.

Suvendu Adhikari caste has become a major talking point after BJP formed its first government in West Bengal. Here’s which ...

On October 2, the government of the eastern Indian state of Bihar released the report of a survey on the state’s population by caste – a traditional hierarchical division in Hindu society. The state ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A census official collects information from a household in Bonda, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, during the 2011 national ...

People line up outside a polling booth to cast their votes during voting for the Kerala state legislature elections in Kochi, India, April 6, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/R S Iyer Subscribe for ads-free ...

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 ...

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s failure to identify slavery as the primary cause of the Civil War has created a firestorm. But the press is missing an important issue when reporting on ...

"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 ...

As BR Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste turns 90, Roshan Kishore and Abhishek Jha explore how reality compares with the dream ...