Scholar-activist Debi Chatterjee traces her shift from apartheid studies to anti-caste politics, Dalit feminism, and Bengali ...

The party is expected to use the upcoming organisational reshuffle and appointments to vacant posts in boards and ...

DHAMPUR, India — Long before shock election results released this week eroded Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political mandate, the seeds of discontent were planted in the poor, zigzagging alleys ...

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 ...

Critics from opposition factions condemned the latest cabinet enlargement in Bihar, asserting that the BJP-dominated ...

A wide range of Indian languages employ the retroflex ṇa. In my mother tongue, Gujarati, the consonant is shared across caste ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bihar state’s caste-based population survey could increase PM Modi’s challenges ahead of next year’s parliamentary election. On October 2, the government of the eastern Indian state of Bihar released ...

"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 ...