A bench of Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi issued notice to the Centre on the plea by Advocate ...

The Karnataka Legislative Assembly recently approved the Scheduled Castes Sub-Classification Bill, 2025 and turned it into ...

The Supreme Court in a recent order clarified that if a reserved category candidate, without availing any relaxation or ...

Bihar released the results of a historic caste-based survey in October 2023, mapping the state’s demographic and economic landscape. This comprehensive exercise counted all castes for the first time ...

Constructively criticising the Constitution is imperative at a time when its survival is threatened by the Hindutva project.

India’s Supreme Court has intervened in the controversy over the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s plans to expand caste-based reservations (mandatory affirmative action programs) at the ...

Mumbai has seen countless protests, but the late-August agitation led by Manoj Jarange-Patil was different. Promised as a peaceful sit-in, it swelled into a massive rally that paralysed the city’s ...

Parbhani: The Matang community has initiated an agitation at the district collectorate demanding classification in the Scheduled Caste reservations for the past 50 days. On Thursday, a delegation of ...

Reservation of jobs and seats in educational institutions, which were based hitherto on caste identity, will now include economic criteria as well. In 2019, the Indian parliament passed the 103rd ...

SIXTY years after India's constitution banned caste discrimination, Hinduism's millennia-old hierarchy retains a tight grip. Lonely-hearts ads in the newspapers are classified by caste and sub-caste.