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

When the earliest form of caste was created in ancient India, it had roots in religion. In the 21st century, it lives on as a ...

NEW DELHI, April 30 (Reuters) - India's cabinet approved the inclusion of citizens' caste details in its population census on Wednesday, the information minister said, seeking to gain the initiative ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

On August 23, a multi-party delegation of politicians led by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi to press the demand for holding a caste-based census in the ...

Popular artificial-intelligence models often reproduce harmful stereotypes about Indian castes, find several studies that used specific tools designed to detect ‘caste bias’ in large language models ...

The caste system has existed in some form in India for at least 3,000 years. It is a social hierarchy passed down through families, and it can dictate the professions a person can work in as well as ...

NEW DELHI, April 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The hip-hop artist Arivu was in his final year of engineering college when it hit home that he was a Dalit — one of the "untouchables" in India’s ...