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Census 2027 and politics of counting caste
The republic was not even a month old when the census superintendents of all states of the infant nation gathered in Delhi to prepare for the gargantuan task before them – the first census of ...
Considering the gap between increasing group representation and expanding individual opportunities.Reading India through ...
On October 2, the government of the eastern Indian state of Bihar released the report of a survey on the state’s population by caste – a traditional hierarchical division in Hindu society. The state ...
In a landmark policy shift, the Government of India has announced it will conduct a caste survey alongside Census 2021, breaking from its long-held stance. The decision, taken at a Cabinet meeting ...
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Rejoinder: Use of Kafka’s cockroach metaphor for Dalit identity undermines anti-caste politics
In his article “ Being a Dalit, being a cockroach: A self-reflective note on Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ ”, Bhimraj M, a scholar ...
(RNS) — Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once led a mass conversion of Dalits, or lower caste, to Buddhism. (RNS) ...
"Votebank" politics Figuring out which party can win in Uttar Pradesh depends on complex caste equations and what political strategists call “votebank” politics. Or, as the saying goes: It’s not how ...
JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief editor of LeftWord Books, and ...
New Delhi: All castes were enumerated during census exercises carried out in British India between 1881 and 1931, but at the time of the first census of independent India in 1951, the then government ...
correctionA previous version of this article incorrectly said the caste survey underway in Bihar state has 250 categories; the survey has 215 categories. The year of India's independence was also ...
Distinguished Indian sociologist and public intellectual Dipankar Gupta, formerly a professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, speaks to The Daily Star about the historical evolution of caste, the ...
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