Today, many non-Hindus in India, including Muslims, Christians, Jains and Buddhists, also identify with certain castes. There are several main castes, and thousands of sub-castes – from the ...

The count is likely lead to demands to raise the country's quotas that reserve government jobs, college admissions and elected offices for some categories of castes, especially for a swathe of ...

At present, there is no comprehensive repository of such groups apart from the Constitutional lists of the Scheduled Castes (SCs), the Scheduled Tribes (STs), and the Other Backward Classes (OBCs).

There are scores of caste-based political parties and many state institutions must offer quotas to lower castes for employment and college places. Supporters have stressed the need for data on ...

Making use of both quantitative and qualitative data, the disparities in the socio-economic standing of various sub-castes within scheduled castes are discussed. The perceptions about health, illness ...

BENGALURU: The leaked socio-economic and educational survey that enumerated castes or communities in Karnataka has created fresh headaches for the state govt, which is contemplating the extent of ...

People of the scheduled castes accounted for 2.6 per cent of such wealth in 2022, compared with the 88.4 per cent share of those from upper castes, according to additional data shared with ...