Identity and caste are common currency denominations in Uttar Pradesh—for the privileged as much as for caste-emancipatory politics. The government has now issued a directive that outlaws a central ...

Vijayawada: Deputy Chief Minister and Jana Sena chief K Pawan Kalyan asserted that he has never practiced politics using the ...

New Delhi, Apr 30 (PTI) All castes were enumerated during census exercises carried out in British India between 1881 and 1931, but at the time of the first census of independent India in 1951, the ...

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 ...

People line up outside a polling booth to cast their votes during voting for the Kerala state legislature elections in Kochi, India, April 6, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/R S Iyer Subscribe for ads-free ...

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 ...

As Uttar Pradesh heads towards the 2027 Assembly elections, political parties have begun fighting the first battle long ...

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The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with population of nearly 220 million, goes to the polls from Feb. 11 to Mar. 8 in what will be the biggest democratic election in the world this year. Here's a look ...

For nearly a decade, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) appeared to have solved Uttar Pradesh’s (UP) caste puzzle. By stitching together non-Yadav Other Backward Classes (OBCs), non-Jatav Dalits, upper ...

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 ...