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Manish Tewari writes: Census 2027 must count sub-caste in

October 01, 2025 7:36 am

India’s first fully digital Census offers opportunities for sophisticated metadata analysis. These technological capabilities will be wasted if data collection remains conceptually limited to expansive categories

As Rahul Gandhi says Congress OBC outreach ‘fell short’, a recall of the party’s history with these communities

July 27, 2025 7:07 pm

Over the decades, the Congress missed several opportunities to reach out to OBCs. It also failed to claim credit for policy changes with regard to OBCs that were, in fact, initiated by Congress governments. Here’s how.

The paradox of a de-Mandalised North and Mandalised South

May 27, 2025 12:35 pm

Irrespective of the BJP’s ascendancy, can progressive subaltern parties in both the North and South effectively mobilise and articulate a discourse centred on genuine empowerment, rights, and agency?

Can Mandal and Kamandal go together? The logic behind caste census announcement

May 05, 2025 12:12 pm

Contrary to the conventional political wisdom, politics of caste and politics of Hindutva, far from being necessarily antithetical, can blend under appropriate circumstances

Caste census: Stalled Mandal report to still-born SECC, BJP readies its case against Congress

May 02, 2025 7:48 am

Party will underline that it is BJP govt that took reforms such as GST, Aadhaar and now caste census to logical conclusion. To the world, the message post-Pahalgam is, govt’s work has not stopped.

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Akhilesh Yadav and Rahul Gandhi's strategy — promise of caste census and more reservation

May 30, 2024 8:31 am

This subaltern justice framework merges economic concerns with social ones. Whether voters in UP and beyond are wooed remains to be seen

Reservations and politics, and how one shaped the other: From Independence to EWS quota

November 10, 2022 8:11 pm

Constitution envisaged a quota for SC/STs, the inclusion of OBCs and EWS in general category now, has been a give and take amidst a nation in formation

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August 12, 1982, Forty Years Ago: Mandal deferred

August 11, 2022 11:18 pm

The government will not take any hasty decision on the far-reaching recommendations of the Mandal Commission on backward classes, Home Minister R Venkataraman told the Lok Sabha.

V P Singh, 8th Prime Minister who implemented Mandal panel report

May 24, 2022 8:00 pm

Singh rose to the country's top post as a leader of the Janata Dal, which he founded in 1988. He began his political journey with the Congress party in late 1960s in Allahabad.