caste census

Why a Caste Census Matters

Ullekh NP

BJP has maintained that while it is not opposed to caste enumeration, the process must be handled with care and carried out through the formal Census, rather than sloppy state-level surveys

BJP, Congress clash over who demanded Caste Census data first

Open

BJP says papa don’t preach, citing inconsistencies in Congress’s past decisions

Modi Govt accepts Opposition Caste challenge

Ullekh NP

Caste will be enumerated for the first time since 1932 in the next national census, will provide clearer picture of social composition of India

The Priyanka Papers

Minhaz Merchant

Her presence in Lok Sabha normalises the idea of dynasty

A Worn-Out Old LP

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

Feeding the Fault Lines

PR Ramesh

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

Minority Report: How Muslim’s Fare in Modi’s India

Surjit S Bhalla

Muslims in Modi’s India are doing better than Blacks in the US

Mandal seeks a comeback against Kamandal

Rajeev Deshpande

The opposition hopes the Bihar caste survey will revive the Mandal debate but BJP’s Hindutva-plus model has changed the ground rules

A Whiff of Mandal

PR Ramesh

The Opposition’s demand for a caste-based census is a desperate gambit to splinter Modi’s Hindu constituency

The Politics of Caste Census

Siddharth Singh

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