The General category is not for any particular caste, but is determined on the basis of merit. This court decision will have ...

The Supreme Court said that the general category was not a reserved quota but an open category where any candidate could be ...

The Supreme Court in a recent order clarified that if a reserved category candidate, without availing any relaxation or ...

India’s Supreme Court has intervened in the controversy over the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government’s plans to expand caste-based reservations (mandatory affirmative action programs) at the ...

Bihar released the results of a historic caste-based survey in October 2023, mapping the state’s demographic and economic landscape. This comprehensive exercise counted all castes for the first time ...

On November 7, a five-person bench of India’s Supreme Court ruled 3-2 that the government can reserve 10 percent of the spots in educational institutions and government jobs for members of the ...

SIXTY years after India's constitution banned caste discrimination, Hinduism's millennia-old hierarchy retains a tight grip. Lonely-hearts ads in the newspapers are classified by caste and sub-caste.