Rising contractual employment in sanitation work draws upon and reproduces historical inequalities of caste and class in ...

UCSB sociologist Dana Kornberg examines how race, caste and institutional access shape unequal pathways to status and wealth ...

Jyotiba Phule and Babasaheb Ambedkar were the fierce critics of Hindu caste system and the exploitative domination of priestly castes over the majority oppressed groups. They imagined modern India ...

The release of the population data of castes/sub-castes in Karnataka, as part of the Socio-Economic and Educational Survey (popularly called caste census), has generated much political heat.

Chikkamagaluru: Former chairman of the Karnataka State Permanent Backward Classes Commission, K Jayaprakash Hegde, claimed that it was not a caste census but a socio-economic and educational ...

The court quashed the order rejecting the petitioner’s plea for considering her belonging to Group B category and declared that she is entitled to reservation for employment under Group-B and as ...

Sumitra was appointed as a primary school teacher in 1993 under the OBC quota as she claimed her caste belonged to Group 'B'. However, in 1996, she received a notice stating that her community was ...

There is speculation that he might have been ‘silenced’ by Rahul Gandhi who has repeatedly asked for a nation-wide caste census and Siddaramaiah obviously has his complete support. However ...