India's caste system is 3,000 years old and continues to determine the opportunities that most of the country's 1.4 billion ...

The proposal for caste census was approved in the meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs. As soon as IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnav gave information about this decision, the political ...

The BJP had fought Mandal with kamandal,or Hindutva, and prevailed. But today, it seems to have decided to put Hindutva on ...

India will conduct its first official caste census since independence, the government announced on Wednesday, a move likely ...

"The Cabinet Committee of Political Affairs has decided today that caste enumeration should be included in the forthcoming ...

"The Cabinet Committee of Political Affairs has decided today that caste enumeration should be included in the forthcoming census," government spokesman Ashwini Vaishnav told reporters.

Every now and then, India witnesses a politically momentous event arising from the internal compulsions of the ruling ...

“The Cabinet Committee of Political Affairs has decided today that caste enumeration should be included in the forthcoming census,” government spokesman Ashwini Vaishnav told reporters. “This ...