Virendra Kapoor
Rahul Gandhi seems to be stuck on a caste survey without which, he suggests, the hitherto weaker castes cannot be expected to make any progress
India could end up paying a high price for the Opposition’s political opportunism and exploitation of contentious issues from caste to lateral entry in government
Muslims in Modi’s India are doing better than Blacks in the US
The opposition hopes the Bihar caste survey will revive the Mandal debate but BJP’s Hindutva-plus model has changed the ground rules
The Opposition’s demand for a caste-based census is a desperate gambit to splinter Modi’s Hindu constituency
What Modi has done over time, especially by providing public goods that were earlier local in nature, is to greatly weaken the salience of caste-based politics