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BENGALURU: The Veerashaiva-Lingayat Mahasabha has raised strong objections to the Karnataka State Backward Classes Commission over what it described as inconsistencies, repetitions, and a lack of ...

In a recent directive, the Rajasthan High Court stated that revenue villages, hamlets, or any such settlements should not be named after any person, caste, sub-caste, or religion. The High Court ...

Hubballi: As the caste census is all set to begin in Karnataka on September 22, members of the Lingayat community are confused about the entries they should be making under ‘religion', ‘caste', and ...

(RNS) — Last December, when Brandeis University announced a first-of-its-kind policy banning discrimination based on caste, administrators hoped other institutions would follow suit and adopt similar ...

On an all-country scale, the exercise of counting castes was introduced in South Asia by the British during the censuses (which were held across colonized India once every 10 years starting 1881). The ...

If we stand next to one another, Thenmozhi Soundararajan and I look alike. We both have Indian immigrant roots and are the products of marriages between Hindu fathers and Christian mothers. We share ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a measure that would have made California the first state to ban caste-based discrimination. According to Newsom, the bill was deemed unnecessary because California ...