NEW DELHI -- India will start counting its vast population in a mammoth exercise starting next year. The first census in 16 ...

There was a polarisation of views on getting the caste data included in the Census, with the government taking a negative ...

The political debate over caste census intensifies as Prime Minister Narendra Modi endorses it, contrasting with previous ...

The Ministry of Home Affairs clarifies concerns over Census delays and reassures attention to southern states during ...

So, it came as a surprise when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration announced that caste would be counted in the upcoming national census for the first time since 1931 – when India ...

After officials of the Union government on Wednesday said that the long-delayed census will be carried out in two phases ...

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 ...

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 Minister ...

Colonial ruler Britain began an Indian census in 1872 and counted all castes until 1931. However, independent India since 1951 only counted Dalits and Adivasis, who are referred to as scheduled ...