A party spokesperson said party leaders participated in the state level ‘OBC Rights Rally’ organised at the Haryana Congress office in Chandigarh ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Members of the audience listen to a speaker at a rally organized by National Conference of Dalit Organisations in New Delhi ...

Chandigarh, Oct 7 (PTI) The Haryana unit of Congress on Wednesday said the caste census can become a historic instrument for social justice only if every caste and community is counted accurately, sci ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A census official collects information from a household in Bonda, on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, during the 2011 national ...

The Hindu caste system is a system of social organization that assigns people social functions in society based on birth, not characteristics specific to their own identities. The caste system is ...

I studied at IIT Madras in the '80s, and believe me, fully caste-conscious place. But your caste changed every year, says Ramesh Srivats ...

FILE - Members of the audience listen to a speaker at a rally organized by National Conference of Dalit Organisations in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2005. Dalits, who belong to the lowest of ...

A few days ago, I was talking with a friend of mine about how some Indian people only have one name, their first name. They dropped their last name as a protest against the caste system, because a ...

India's caste system is among the world's oldest forms of surviving social stratification. The BBC explains its complexities. The system which divides Hindus into rigid hierarchical groups based on ...