The government has decided to divide the 59 SC communities into three distinct groups — Group I, Group II and Group III — which will now share the existing 15 per cent quota for SCs in government jobs ...

The Telangana government on Monday issued an order on the implementation of Scheduled Castes (SC) categorisation, making it ...

Ghosh asserts that both the intermediate peasant castes as well as the Scheduled Castes were “too dispersed and fragmented to pose any challenge to the upper caste bhadralok.” He points to the case of ...

Bookmark stories for easy access on any device or the Swarajya app. The Karnataka government has decided to conduct a fresh survey to collect empirical data for restructuring the 17 per cent ...

Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca cancelled a scheduled day off for senior players this week after they were beaten 3-0 by the club’s Under-21 team in a training exercise. Maresca took the action ...

As Mr. Chavan had claimed that challenges to his caste certificate, as belonging to Lambani community, which is a Scheduled Caste (SC), was rejected multiple times earlier, the court said that in ...

The isolated definition of caste-based discrimination as “only against the members of the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes” excludes the broader ways in which it operates. For example ...

Tamil Nadu State Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Chairperson Dr Justice S Tamilvanan has stated that caste-related conflicts are more prevalent in the southern districts of ...

There is a strong gender element to the ramifications of caste as well. Women who belong to a “scheduled caste”—one that falls low in the hierarchy—suffer higher incidents of domestic ...

objections by upper caste families to their children being fed meals cooked by scheduled caste volunteers are not rare either. Caste’s energetic resurrection in Bengal’s socio-political consciousness ...

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has set aside the Haryana Public Service Commission’s (HPSC) rejection of a Scheduled Caste candidate’s candidature for the state’s judicial services, calling the ...