The commission headed by retired judge H.N. Nagmohan Das, which is overseeing a survey of Scheduled Caste population in Karnataka to draw up internal reservation for them from the 17% reservation ...

Justice Gavai was sworn in by President Droupadi Murmu on Wednesday for a six-month tenure ending November 23, 2025.

Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, India's 52nd chief justice and its first Buddhist one, has played a key role in shaping the ...

Justice Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai, India’s 52nd chief justice and its first Buddhist one, has played a key role in shaping the judicial landscape, penning about 300 verdicts, including landmark rulings ...

While BJP’s caste census move marks a major policy shift, it has highlighted deep inequalities and sparked debate on ...

Shedding its longstanding ambivalence, the party has greenlighted the caste enumeration exercise to mark a shift in the ...

Akshay Dixit PhD in Political Economy and Government 2025 says that thinking deeply about social questions was part of his ...

The hierarchical identity system continues to divide society — nearly 100 years after calls for its abolition.

A caste census will lead to demands for reservations in jobs and education proportional to the population share. Hindu upper castes are anxious that their share will shrink.

There are two issues that are most discussed at present in the country. First is how will India take revenge for the Pahalgam ...

The most recent data on the populations of individual castes and tribes in India were collected between 2011 and 2013 ... (Code 2), “Other” (Code 3), and “No Caste/ Tribe” (Code 4), and for the “Name ...

The 1931 Census of India, the last one to enumerate castes in the country, had counted over 4,147 different castes and sub-castes across the country, which included over 300 caste groups that had ...