We show that in government, public sector as well as in the bureaucracy - compared to what things were in the 50s and 60s - there is enormous change in representation,' says Devesh Kapur ...

Uttar Pradesh politics is once again abuzz with discussions about caste equations. Nearly four dozen Brahmin MLAs and MLCs of the ruling BJP attended an informal baati-chokha dinner meeting in Lucknow ...

Karnataka’s 2025 caste survey exposes political inequality and rising minority marginalisation. Explore new data, ...

Dalit thinkers argue that caste as a dimension of social oppression was sidelined in communist practice. Intellectuals within ...

Bahujan” formulation, arguing that it flattens Bahujan political agency, misreads movements like the farmers’ protest, and recentres savarna epistemologies while ignoring Ambedkarite ideological ...

Politics in UP is also driven by caste matrices. The BJP deftly managed this in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, retaining the ...

One of Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she "otherwise loved very much" — utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid. The Seattle City ...

Like many recent arrivals to California, Prem Pariyar searched for work and a home within communities of fellow immigrants. So when coworkers at a South Asian restaurant in Davis refused to room with ...

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s failure to identify slavery as the primary cause of the Civil War has created a firestorm. But the press is missing an important issue when reporting on ...

"Votebank" politics Figuring out which party can win in Uttar Pradesh depends on complex caste equations and what political strategists call “votebank” politics. Or, as the saying goes: It’s not how ...