Chief Minister DK Shivakumar and State Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda provide representation to the influential ...

The BJP, however, believes that reports of the collapse of its backward caste coalition are premature. BJP spokesperson ...

Submitted just before the change of guard, the caste survey presents DK Shivakumar with his first major political and social ...

Addressing issues ranging from representation and reservations to student suicides and institutional discrimination, Dwivedi ...

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 ...

Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah received a caste survey report, reviving political tensions. Vokkaliga leaders demand a new survey amid leadership speculation in Congress.

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 ...

The Indian government will collect caste details in its next population census in a policy U-turn that could have sweeping socioeconomic and political ramifications. Information minister Ashwini ...

Mysuru (Karnataka) [India], May 8 (ANI): Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat advocated for inter-caste marriages to eradicate discrimination in the society of which, he said, politicians ...

As DK Shivakumar prepares to become Karnataka's Chief Minister, cabinet formation will test Congress's caste balancing act, ...

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 ...