Caste remains crucial in Tamil Nadu elections, influencing candidate selection by major parties DMK and AIADMK despite social ...

Caste, once again, is casting its shadow over India’s politics. Caste-based “reservations” (reserved places) in education and government employment are supposed to benefit India’s most deprived, but ...

Tamil Nadu's political landscape sees caste-based parties aligning with major Dravidian outfits to gain legislative ...

Kerala’s voting patterns are shaped by caste blocs, religious communities and regional divides, but within a stable two-front ...

Community leaders, including a Christian pastor, have cautiously welcomed a northern Indian state’s move to ban caste-based political rallies, arguing it will undermine grassroots struggles by the ...

For the Marathi poet-activist, song and verse are tools of social change, like they have been for Phule’s Satyashodhak Samaj ...

Welfare politics, alliance arithmetic and regional dynamics shape a tightly contested election between DMK and AIADMK blocs ...

NEW DELHI — India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The first census in 16 years will be conducted digitally and include controversial questions about ...

In a candid conversation with NDTV's VeeraRaghav, ‘Rocket’ Raja, also known as Arumuga Pandian, spoke about caste, politics, ...