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 ...

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 ...

In the 1990s, the Anthropological Survey of India presented a book that summarized seven years of field research on the country’s most backward castes – the volume was titled “Scheduled Castes.” The ...

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The Supreme Court, in the recent case of Chinthada Anand v. The State of Andhra Pradeshand others, ruled that individuals who ...

An average of 47 per cent of youth across 56 major castes in Telangana have studied in English medium though access varies widely between communities, according to the caste survey conducted by the ...

A socio-economic survey initiated by Karnataka state in southern India has become controversial after the state prevented Christians from entering their caste, following opposition from Hindu groups.

As a young girl growing up in Ajmer, a small town in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan, journalist and author, Yashica Dutt, 38, says that she was painfully aware of the many sacrifices her mother ...

Hyderabad: Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) in Telangana are three times more backward than general caste ...

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian government ...