Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A census official collects information from a household in Bonda, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, during the 2011 national ...

Journalist Meena Kotwal (center) issues a statement from Silgir village in India where she joined a protest for indigenous people's rights. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become ...

NEW DELHI — 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 ...

An expert group led by Justice B Sudershan Reddy analysed the Telangana caste survey (SEEEPC 2024) and found that 135 of 242 ...

Activists in Guwahati, Assam, India, hold placards during a protest on Oct. 3, 2020 over the death of a 19-year-old Dalit woman after an alleged gang rape in Uttar Pradesh. A new Bollywood movie is ...

An expert group that analysed the caste survey conducted by the Congress government in Telangana in 2024-25 has observed that 135 of the total 242 castes in the state are more backward than the ...

About 30 per cent of private sector professionals in Telangana belong to the General Castes, while only 5 per cent are ...

On an all-country scale, the exercise of counting castes was introduced in South Asia by the British during the censuses (which were held across colonized India once every 10 years starting 1881). The ...

Hyderabad: An Independent Expert Working Group (IEWG), which undertook a comprehensive analysis of Socio-Economic, ...

Bengaluru: The Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes defended the inclusion of caste categories within the Christian community in the upcoming caste census, countering BJP's charge that it ...