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.

India is set to conduct its first caste-based census in years, and for the first time, Muslim communities will also be asked ...

Numbers are the basis of governance; without them, the state loses confidence. In government offices, one may see that every item — electrical panels, fans, chairs — is meticulously numbered ...

Alleging that the intentions of the caste census report of the Siddaramaiah-led government and the one planned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi were “entirely different”, the BJP on Tuesday ...

In July 2021, the minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai told Parliament that ``the government of India decided it as a matter of policy not to enumerate caste-wise population other than ...

Modi govt’s climbdown partly aimed at dispelling the impression that it is pro-rich The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in ...

The central government announced plans for caste census the next day. PREMIUM An enumerator collects information from residents during the Bihar caste census in 2023. (Santosh Kumar/ HT Photo ...

The new caste census will give us a detailed caste-wise break-up of India’s population. Whether or not the census schedule is significantly altered to capture caste-wise economic inequality ...

King Djoser of Egypt ordered his chief architect, Imhotep, to design a tomb like no other - The Step Pyramid of Djoser.

Bond, who shares her knowledge on labor organizing in the ancient world, which stretches back to the earliest recorded strike, which took place in 1157 BCE in the Ancient Egyptian artisan’s ...

I f there is one thing which has been vindicated once again by the Narendra Modi government’s decision to include a caste ...