Explore the origins of the caste system, rooted in political and economic factors rather than purity, pollution, or race.

NEW DELHI (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anand Teltumbde mines data and history to analyse the narrow framing, as well as futility, of a caste census in his new book ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The first census in 16 years will be conducted digitally and include controversial questions ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next population census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country. The ...