Mayawati's Strong Remarks Against SP's Caste Politics The national president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and former ...

Bankipur therefore does not announce the demise of caste politics. It signals something subtler: the weakening of the ...

Enumerators to record caste stated by people, will not try to classify surnames, sub-castes into broader caste categories ...

"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 ...

The young leader asserted his Dalit identity yet refused to be limited by it while showing how issues of livelihood and ...

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 ...

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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 ...

In the 1990s, the Anthropological Survey of India presented a book that summarized seven years of field research on the country’s most backward castes – the volume was titled “Scheduled Castes.” The ...

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Like many recent arrivals to California, Prem Pariyar searched for work and a home within communities of fellow immigrants. So when coworkers at a South Asian restaurant in Davis refused to room with ...