In October 2024, Swachh Bharat Mission (SBM), India’s largest sanitation project to make the country “open defecation-free,” turned ten. The project constructed over 100 million toilets and launched ...

The quandary in which the Nitish Kumar government finds itself after the Bihar High Court struck down the decision to raise the reservation cap from 50% to 65% is not easily resolved. Unless the ...

Caste is one of human history's oldest forms of inequality, legitimized by Brahmanical knowledge and enforced through caste-based violence and dehumanization. This paper argues that the anti-caste ...

Though official understanding in India is that inequality is much less of a concern today than it was in the early 2010s, ...

Since independence, successive governments have implemented agrarian reforms—most notably land redistribution and the green revolution—to expand access to land, raise agricultural productivity, and ...

Here is what the survey broadly reveals about Telangana's population, from inequality level among castes to employment levels to number of women-led households.

Anand Teltumbde, an academic and an activist, has written an unusual book that seeks to combine scholarship with popular political rhetoric that is not always negative. Rhetoric is a way of speaking ...

California has moved one step closer to banning caste discrimination in the state. The state Senate passed a bill Thursday that would update California’s civil rights law to explicitly include ...

(CNN) — 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. CNN — (CNN) — ...

Strengthening the representation of Backward Classes in education, employment, and governance, and addressing structural inequalities through data-driven policy interventions as the aim, the All India ...

Mysuru (Karnataka), May 6 (PTI) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday said that the ongoing caste census would form the basis for future policy decisions, asserting that the exercise was ...

Despite caste-based discrimination being outlawed by Article 15 of the Indian constitution, caste continues to play a pervasive and insidious role in today’s society. Anthropologist Louis Dumont ...