NEW DELHI, April 30 (Reuters) - India's cabinet approved the inclusion of citizens' caste details in its population census on Wednesday, the information minister said, seeking to gain the initiative ...

In the 1990s, the Anthropological Survey of India presented a book that summarized seven years of field research on the country’s most backward castes – the volume was titled “Scheduled Castes.” The ...

(CNN) — For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. (CNN) — For ...

India is OpenAI’s second-largest market, but ChatGPT and Sora reproduce caste stereotypes that harm millions of people. When Dhiraj Singha began applying for postdoctoral sociology fellowships in ...

The caste system has existed in some form in India for at least 3,000 years. It is a social hierarchy passed down through families, and it can dictate the professions a person can work in as well as ...

While much of the discussion has focused on the capabilities of India’s startups and the role of government, the moment offers an opportunity to confront a deeper issue: the persistent exclusion of ...

NEW DELHI, April 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The hip-hop artist Arivu was in his final year of engineering college when it hit home that he was a Dalit — one of the "untouchables" in India’s ...

The Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center recently released a landmark survey on religion and society in India. Administered to 29,999 respondents in 17 languages between November 2019 and March ...

Many of the patterns described in this report vary by caste. In India, castes are hereditary social classes. Historically, the caste someone was born into determined their status in the social ...