India’s Caste System Is Controversial and Discriminatory. So Why Is It Being Included in the Next Census?

India’s caste system is controversial and discriminatory. So why is it being included in the next census?

The Indian government has long insisted that the social hierarchy has no place in the country, which banned caste discrimination in 1950.

Caste Census: Why decision for new enumeration taken after massacre of 26 persons in Pahalgam?

After the Centre’s sudden and what many feel mistimed announcement to hold the Caste Census the Bharatiya Janata Party is Struggling to come out with a fresh strategy in Karnataka, Telangana, and Bihar which had already undertaken this exercise by spending hundreds of crores of rupees. In the two Congress-ruled states of South India, the saffron party had criticized the Caste Census on the plea that it had overlooked one caste or the other. In t…