Under the Adityanath government, party workers and voters complain of an upper-caste bias in the distribution of state ...

Sanjay Nishad is among the leaders of many different caste groups in Uttar Pradesh who has always punched above his weight. In the 2022 Assembly polls, with one son the sole MLA of his NISHAD ...

INDI Alliance’s Caste Gamble: Taking on Gandhi in Sultanpur is the Samajwadi Party’s Ram Bhual Nishad. A former minister, he belongs to the Nishad caste, which has approximately 2.5 lakh ...

Travelers to India have commented on caste for more than two thousand years. In Indian society the group comes first, unlike our own society that gives so much importance to the individual personality ...

Both major players are relying on their strategic playbooks, deploying caste calculations as they vie for control ... and one ...

The BJP has picked OBC candidates for four of the nine UP Assembly seats where bypolls will be held on November 13. The ...

Arun Rajbhar said that the demands for caste census and implementation of social justice committee report would continue to be the key demands of the party. Earlier, the Nishad party, led by ...

A Canadian police officer has been suspended for participating in a pro-Khalistan protest outside the Hindu Sabha temple in ...

Write to me: [email protected] It’s a familiar narrative: the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Hindutva agenda has overridden caste as the main factor of Indian politics, many claim. At first ...

Caste-based discrimination practices in more than 1,300 jails across India, dating back to British colonial rule, have been declared unconstitutional by the country’s supreme court. Responding ...

Seattle has become the first US city to ban discrimination based on caste after a vote by the city council. Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, who wrote the legislation, said the fight against caste bias ...