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The Allahabad High Court on Monday rejected a petition seeking a direction to treat the communities of Nishad, Kashyap, Kewat ...
On an all-country scale, the exercise of counting castes was introduced in South Asia by the British during the censuses (which were held across colonized India once every 10 years starting 1881). The ...
Ahead of the state assembly elections, the Akhilesh Yadav government on Thursday gave its assent to include 17 Other Backward Castes in the Scheduled Castes (SC) list. A Cabinet meeting presided over ...
We were looking at the importance of caste in explaining the dominance of the army in Pakistan. At Partition, Pakistan got two-thirds of Punjab, while India got one-third. More Punjabis live in ...
As per Census- 2011, the number of scheduled castes in India is 20, 13, and 78,086. It is 16.6% of the total population of India. The scheduled castes are 18.5% of the total population of rural areas ...
Sanjay Jatav believes he has won an important battle in the long war against caste-based discrimination in India. The 26-year-old resident of Basai Babas, a village in Mahamayanagar district of Uttar ...
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. Though ...
How long Indians live on average depends on the hierarchy of the social groups they belong to with upper castes living about four to six years more than women and men from the scheduled castes and ...
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