We were looking at the importance of caste in explaining the dominance of the army in Pakistan. At Partition, Pakistan got two-thirds of Punjab, while India got one-third. More Punjabis live in ...

As per Census- 2011, the number of scheduled castes in India is 20, 13, and 78,086. It is 16.6% of the total population of India. The scheduled castes are 18.5% of the total population of rural areas ...

The Union government gives special grants only for those states or regions that are deemed ‘backward’ for their development ...

Sanjay Jatav believes he has won an important battle in the long war against caste-based discrimination in India. The 26-year-old resident of Basai Babas, a village in Mahamayanagar district of Uttar ...

Ahead of the state assembly elections, the Akhilesh Yadav government on Thursday gave its assent to include 17 Other Backward Castes in the Scheduled Castes (SC) list. A Cabinet meeting presided over ...

TALKING to a member of a scheduled caste from Sindh means talking to the utterly wretched of the earth, whose tale of woe will fill any conscious Pakistani’s heart with feelings of shame and outrage.

On an all-country scale, the exercise of counting castes was introduced in South Asia by the British during the censuses (which were held across colonized India once every 10 years starting 1881). The ...