Caste News

Jason Arday s death has raised pertinent questions about academic excellence and integrity, institutional practices pertaining to diversity and inclusion, and criticism in general. A sociologist of education, Arday was only 37 when he was appointed in March 20

A day after the under-suspension superintending engineer (SE) with the UHBVNL was found dead under mysterious circumstances, the family on Tuesday decided to cremate his body after the administration assured them that an ASP-led special investigation team (SIT

Mumbai: In a setback for the Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT), the caste verification committee in Palghar district has declared as invalid the caste certificate of former mayor and sitting Dadar corporator Vishakha Raut. Unless the senior Sena (UBT) leade

Barely a month after the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) protest ended, Jantar Mantar is once again the site of a standoff - this time against caste-based reservation. Protesters under the banner of Reservation Hatao Andolan arrived on Friday morning and sparred w

The Allahabad high court has held that mere use of a caste name like Chamar does not automatically attract provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act unless there was an intent to humiliate the victim. Allowing a cri

An Indian Express investigation has found that workers arrested during the April protests in Noida were jailed for an average of 53 days before courts intervened, granting bail in 84 per cent of cases involving substantive allegations. Judges held that mere pr

A new History textbook for Class 6, introduced by the Maharashtra state board this year, states that diet during the vedic period was "plant-based". A line about varna giving rise to birth-based caste and inequality, present in the previous version of the book

Yogendra Yadav argued in these pages ( Caste census is dead. Don t expect a formal announcement or funeral , IE, August 12) that the caste census exercise has been quietly killed by a technical choice an open-ended question inviting every Indian to name his ow

Quoting the Bhagavad Gita and Lord Krishna, the Madras High Court recently said that all living beings are equal in the eyes of God and that there is no room for discrimination in a place of worship while hearing a matter alleging that non-Brahmin devotees wer

A few days ago, my mother was talking to our new house help. It was an ordinary conversation of the kind that takes place every day in Indian homes

The Allahabad High Court recently set aside a special court order rejecting a plea by All-India Students Association (AISA) student leader Vivek Kumar seeking registration of an FIR against former Allahabad University Chief Proctor Rakesh Singh over allegation

The Congress party has alleged that Census 2027's caste question methodology is flawed. They claim the census has a deeper nefarious purpose, citing new micro-questions

Around 580 students have been awarded scholarships under the National Overseas Scholarship (NOS) Scheme over the last seven years, from 2019-20 to 2025-26, according to data provided by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in Parliament. The number o

Every August 15, India argues with itself. One side asks: Are we truly free?

The Karnataka High Court has refused to discharge Congress leader Sirajuddin alias Siraj Sheik in an alleged case of hurling casteist abuses at party colleague and former MLA Bhima Naik. Dismissing Sheik s plea challenging a trial court order, Justice M Nagapr

The chilling incident in Haldwani reminds us that caste prejudice will not die until the system itself is throttled. It will show up again and again, like a shapeshifting virus, not just in the meetings of Dalit leaders but in the everyday lives of millions in

The Centre has asked Census officers to collect information on 40 specified items during the population enumeration phase. The list of questions covers basic demographic details such as name, relationship to the head of household, sex, date of birth, age, mari

LUCKNOW The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) has no Scheduled Caste (SC) or Scheduled Tribe (ST) faculty member at the professor level, according to a right to information (RTI) reply issued by the institute earlier this year. The response reveal

Television broadcasters anticipate a challenging festive advertising season ahead. This comes as ratings remain withheld following a ministry directive

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday said reservation is linked to social transformation and economic emancipation of the SC, ST and OBC communities. She said raising the creamy layer issue is not only inappropriate but also contrary to the sacre

This year s selection brings together works translated from Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam. The books move across forms and concerns, from Dalit women s lives and caste to memory, incompleteness, state violence, displacement and modernisation