Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar claims that the Hindu religion did not originally include castes, attributing ...

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat called for Hindu unity, urging respect for law, addressing caste conflicts, and promoting harmony ...

Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar on Wednesday claimed that there were no castes in the Hindu religion, which was higher-level ‘varna’ itself, and it was the British who included castes in ...

Journalist Meena Kotwal (center) issues a statement from Silgir village in India where she joined a protest for indigenous people's rights. This is your first of three free stories this month. Become ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI — 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 ...

The form for the census, which will begin on 22 September, includes a list of caste names associated with the adjective “Christian”. The BJP opposes the local Congress-led government: ‘This opens the ...