Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy clashed over caste politics and social justice. Accusations flew as Siddaramaiah critiqued JD(S) family dominance, while ...

The controversy over the 2026 UGC anti-discrimination regulations reveals the uneasy intersection of caste power, electoral ...

Nearly a hundred years after Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar’s famous treatise, The Annihilation of Caste, who would have thought that India would turn a full circle, or should I say turn turtle? For today ...

Sustained majority-level support suggests that upper caste voters view the BJP as their primary political vehicle at the national level ...

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. The Indian government ...

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 ...

Bengaluru, Feb 22 (PTI) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Sunday engaged in a sharp ...

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said caste now exists largely for selfish interests and political purposes as its traditional occupational basis has disappeared. Responding ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country. Information ...

"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 ...

Ambedkar’s constant presence in vernacular publics speaks about caste as an existential wound and not merely a conceptual category. In recent decades, the life and thought of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar ...