If caste is to be counted, it should be counted well and the open-ended way of registering it in Census will not serve the intended purpose ...

Welcome to The India Fix by Shoaib Daniyal. A newsletter on Indian politics (though this week, it intersects quite a bit with global politics). As always, if you’ve been sent this newsletter and like ...

Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) (NCP (SP)) MP Supriya Sule's recent interview has reignited the debate on whether caste or economic criteria should be the basis for reservations. In ...

India’s Supreme Court has intervened in the controversy over the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s plans to expand caste-based reservations (mandatory affirmative action programs) at the ...

Bihar released the results of a historic caste-based survey in October 2023, mapping the state’s demographic and economic landscape. This comprehensive exercise counted all castes for the first time ...

Reservation of jobs and seats in educational institutions, which were based hitherto on caste identity, will now include economic criteria as well. In 2019, the Indian parliament passed the 103rd ...

Reiterating that the government is firmly committed to providing internal reservation, the chief minister urged all members of the SC community to actively participate in the survey and provide ...

More than 11,000 Scheduled Caste (SC) students fear they may be deprived of reserved seats during CET 2026 counselling due to ...

India’s Congress Party-led coalition government has decided that the 2011 decennial census will be a “caste census”—the first in the almost 65 year history of independent India. On August 12, Pranab ...