Caste census has been a consistent demand of the Socialist parties of different hues and OBC organisations in the country ever since the rise of the Mandal movement. The scholarly debate on caste ...

In July 1982, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was set to visit the US. Triumphant after her return from the political wilderness following the debacle of the Emergency, Gandhi’s meetings with US ...

Makaru has boarded the train on hearing of the destruction by fire of the Dalit basti where his relatives live. Along the journey, he takes a walk in his mind, remembering his own departure, years ago ...

Anand Teltumbde mines data and history to analyse the narrow framing, as well as futility, of a caste census in his new book ...