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 ...

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The Union cabinet has announced that the next population Census will also include questions on caste. This is a sharp departure from the ruling BJP’s long-standing opposition to a caste census.

On Wednesday, the Union cabinet decided that caste would be counted as part of the upcoming census. This is a major U-turn by the Bharatiya Janata Party and Modi. Just a year ago, Modi had ...

Information Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw didn’t say when the census would begin when he announced it would include caste information Wednesday. He said the decision demonstrated New Delhi’s ...