Breaking away from fragmented estimates, regional experiments between 1850 and 1872 laid the groundwork for today's massive census operations.

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The chapter 'State and Society up to 1000 CE' in the new Class IX textbook Understanding Society: India and Beyond states ...

Author Ankit Kawade also brings Nietzsche’s engagement with the question of caste filtered through his reading of a dubious ...

India has thousands of political parties on paper. Some are genuine vehicles of aspiration. But others are beginning to look ...

Several posts on X claim that China, too, has hierarchical social systems that marginalise some sections of society. What are ...

In January 2016, protests erupted across India following the death by suicide of a PhD student named Rohith Vemula. Vemula came from the Dalit community, previously referred to as “untouchables” ...

China, the world's manufacturing powerhouse and a socialist state governed by a communist party, is being accused online of ...

'Once the numbers come out, they fear that the OBCs would start to demand, and articulate what they are lacking, why they are lacking and what should be done to go forward.' IMAGE: A census official ...

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Ahilyanagar: The gramsabha of Saundala in Maharashtra's Ahilyanagar district has unanimously passed a resolution declaring the village as "caste-free" in order to eliminate discrimination, ...

In a casteiest society, love is never just love. It is regulated, guarded, and violently enforced. For Dalits, love—especially across caste lines—often becomes a crime punishable by death. The ...