A Scheduled Caste man was assaulted and his thatched hut was vandalised in an act of alleged caste-based violence at Mela Manganallur in Mayiladuthurai district. The attack stemmed from the ...

Mumbai: The state cabinet on Tuesday approved a draft bill to grant statutory status to the Maharashtra State Scheduled Caste Commission. The bill wil.

Seeking the right to participate in the annual village temple festival, Scheduled Caste (SC) residents of Thittanimuttam in Musiriyam panchayat of Tiruvarur district staged a sit-in protest at the ...

MUMBAI: Bombay HC denied an 18-year-old student Scheduled Caste status, citing no evidence of discrimination despite his mother's SC background. | Mumbai news ...

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In addition to selecting scheduled caste, scheduled tribe or other backward class, aspirants are required to specify their sub-caste, such as dhobi, mochi, nai, mali, kasai or fakir, among others.

Converts need to choose between public faith and caste-based benefits. Vikrant Maheshwar, a Christian Dalit in his late 30s, worked for the Andhra Pradesh government in Southern India for 11 years ...

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Caste enumeration is a necessary exercise that will inevitably change the composition and politics of this social identity marker. Such a headcount wouldn’t just record reality, but may actually ...

Caste Never Went Away: Violence, Humiliation and Resistance Still Shape Our Lives In our 75th Independence Day special issue, Outlook examined how the caste system endures—and what it will take ...

Suraj Milind Yengde's new book, ‘Caste: A Global Story’, shows how once Marathwada connected with the world, the Dalit-Black bond became a precursor to the formation of active political solidarity ...

And they were 245 castes got listed in the survey in Telangana across five categories -- backward caste, scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, general category and an option of no caste if someone ...