Discover rare facts about Dr B.R. Ambedkar, from burning the Manusmriti and challenging Gandhi to converting to Buddhism and ...
For over 2,000 years, the Brahmin was assured of his profession as a bureaucrat in the king’s court. The entire system was ...
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Who Counts, Who Knows, Who Decides but Caste?

Counting and classifying citizens for the caste census must not be treated as a benign exercise, but as a political act that can challenge or reinforce hierarchies of knowledge and power.
The fight between Pawan Kalyan's fans and Mahesh Kathi has taken a funny twist on Saturday, with the latter describing actress Poonam Kaur as Power Star's girlfriend. In a tweet, Kathi bemoaned that ...
Among these two are important: first, that social justice programmes are more or less equivalent to reservation and that reservation is limited to employment in the public sector as well as seats in ...
After all, if Muslims and Christians can be subsumed under the “Hindu” category simply by virtue of living in India and ...
Mohan Bhagwat’s recent remarks in Lucknow have once again revived an old and persistent question: Why are Hindu nationalist ...
India’s constitutional framework rests on a foundational premise: criminal justice must be governed by enacted law and ...
Justice Karol stated that while dowry is prohibited in the Muslim community, mehr is a compulsory gift which the groom is ...
India’s constitutional framework rests on a foundational premise: Criminal Justice must be governed by enacted law and constitutional values, not by religious scripture or moral theology.
In India, prejudices about skin color, closely linked to the caste system, are still widespread. But a couple from Madhya ...