The ongoing census will have no predetermined list of castes, and it will be up to the respondent to mention their caste.

‘There Is Zero Accountability’: India’s ‘Cockroaches’ Question Modi and a Broken System On an all-country scale, the exercise of counting castes was introduced in South Asia by the British during the ...

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 ...

PUNE, India – As a Dalit, Pratibha Valmik Kamble is part of the poorest and most ostracized community in this subcontinent’s ancient caste system, a group of people so shunned that they are still ...

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 ...

Counting castes in India has always been about more than numbers - it is about who gets a share of government benefits and who doesn't. The country's next national census, scheduled for 2027, will - ...

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India's caste system is often seen as an institution deeply rooted in traditional Indian culture. This carefully researched study, however, argues that the caste system was at least partly shaped by ...