PFI pointed to the findings from the last nationwide Census in India, conducted in 2011, which found that the decadal growth rate for Muslims had declined over the past three decades, decreasing ...

Many feel that mobilising around caste grievances can be a necessary jolt to an indifferent society. Indeed, leaders from ...

The proposal is so controversial because a caste census “forces the state to confront structural inequalities that are often politically and socially inconvenient,” said Poonam Muttreja ...

The government’s delay in conducting the census is hurting millions,” she said. On Monday, Bhartiya Rashtra Samithi leader K. Kavitha also brought back the controversy over the caste census recently ...

The Home Ministry announced plans to conduct a two-stage count ending March 1, 2027 in a statement Wednesday night. India's last official census in 2011 counted 1.21 billion people.

Registrar General of India and Census Commissioner Jayant Kumar Banthia, a 1997 batch, Maharashtra cadre Indian Administrative Service officer, is not really made for controversy. He is the ...

In Brief Until the indefinite postponement of its 2021 census, India was perhaps the only country outside the West that could boast of an unbroken chain of censuses starting in the late 19th century.

NEW DELHI — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world's most populous country. Information ...

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Asia-Pacific’s leading current affairs magazine.The issue of a caste census is torn between the ideas of social justice and political correctness.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world's most populous country.