For decades, politics in Uttar Pradesh has revolved around caste arithmetic. Political parties built their electoral strategies around social identities, community loyalties and traditional vote banks ...

Mayawati's Strong Remarks Against SP's Caste Politics The national president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and former ...

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The shift of upper caste voters, including Brahmin, Rajput, Vaish and Bhumihar, to the JSP in the Bankipur bypoll and OBCs rallying behind Congress in the Datia by-election have set alarm bells in the ...

Bankipur therefore does not announce the demise of caste politics. It signals something subtler: the weakening of the ...

The RSS claims to unite Hindus, but caste hierarchies persist within and beyond its ranks. What does Hindu unity mean without equality? Read the analysis.

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On October 2, the government of the eastern Indian state of Bihar released the report of a survey on the state’s population by caste – a traditional hierarchical division in Hindu society. The state ...

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JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief editor of LeftWord Books, and ...

"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 ...

Enumerators to record caste stated by people, will not try to classify surnames, sub-castes into broader caste categories ...