Caste Census News: The government is facing a major question regarding the caste census. Deliberations are ongoing on how ...

In a significant development, the Union Cabinet, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the proposal for the Census of India 2027. The project is set to cost ₹11,718.24 crore and will be ...

Explore the methodology, challenges, and future of India's first caste enumeration in the upcoming 2027 Census.

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 ...

Census rehearsal introduces an open column for caste recording, shaping methodology for Census 2027 based on feedback from the test.

Officials are reportedly evaluating two possible approaches -- an open-ended system that allows individuals to state their caste, or a structured drop-down menu containing recognised caste categories ...

Options are an open-ended format with respondents self-declaring castes, or a drop-down menu of recognised castes. Among those with objections is RSS ...

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 ...

On April 30, the BJP-led central government reversed the decades-long practice of excluding caste enumeration for the significantly-delayed, upcoming census. The last time caste data was recorded in ...

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 ...

In the book, Teltumbde argues that caste is not a list of categories waiting to be counted but a graded hierarchy that governs access to dignity, education, land, labour, and power. Teltumbde ...

The Republican Party of India (Athawale) today demanded that any decision on sub-classification among Scheduled Castes be taken only after the completion of the national caste census and publication ...