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Scheduled Tribes

An Adivasi scholar’s death and the myth of casteless Bengal

Nolina Minj
· May 17, 2023 · 06:30 am
Non-Adivasis can live, vote in Fifth Schedule areas, holds Supreme Court

Scroll Staff
· May 15, 2023 · 01:56 pm
Manipur violence: 30,000 stranded residents moved to safer locations, says state government

Scroll Staff
· May 11, 2023 · 06:14 pm
IITs, central universities filled only 30% of reserved faculty vacancies in a year, shows data

Scroll Staff
· Dec 22, 2022 · 11:01 am
Readers’ comments: ‘I too have struggled because my surname reveals my Dalit identity’

Scroll
· Nov 22, 2022 · 03:30 pm
How caste certificates in India make or break dreams

Johanna Deeksha
· Sep 28, 2022 · 06:30 am
Students accuse FTII of not filling up seats for reserved categories, stage protest

Scroll Staff
· Jul 30, 2022 · 09:54 am
In MP’s Baigachak, tribal residents know little about the special rights granted to the region

Alok Prakash Putul
· Jul 25, 2022 · 11:30 pm
Crimes against Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes rose from 2018 to 2020, Centre tells Lok Sabha

Scroll Staff
· Jul 23, 2022 · 06:31 pm
India’s mass closure of schools is leaving lakhs of students stranded

Johanna Deeksha Malini Subramaniam
· Jul 06, 2022 · 06:30 am
Parliament passes Bill to include Darlongs as Kuki sub-tribal community in Tripura’s ST list

Scroll Staff
· Apr 07, 2022 · 03:32 pm
Why PhDs are a minefield for India’s marginalised students

Johanna Deeksha
· Mar 09, 2022 · 06:30 am
As J&K heads towards delimitation with reserved seats, BJP promises ST status to another community

Safwat Zargar
· Jan 25, 2022 · 06:30 am
Do away with need for collecting data to implement reservation in promotion, Centre urges SC

Scroll Staff
· Oct 07, 2021 · 01:29 pm
Reservation of seats for SCs, STs and OBCs in local bodies can’t be more than 50%, rules SC

Scroll Staff
· Mar 05, 2021 · 02:02 pm
Over 13,000 families living in 26 ‘protected areas’ displaced between 1999 to 2019, shows study

Scroll Staff
· Oct 05, 2020 · 05:54 pm
Supreme Court upholds constitutional validity of amendments to SC/ST Act

Scroll Staff
· Feb 10, 2020 · 11:03 am
Cuts in India’s education budget have meant fewer scholarships for students from marginalised groups

Protiva Kundu, IndiaSpend.com
· Jan 31, 2020 · 01:30 pm
Centre seeks seven-judge Supreme Court bench to revisit ‘creamy layer’ for SC/STs in reservations

Scroll Staff
· Dec 02, 2019 · 02:20 pm
Andhra Pradesh reserves 50% of posts in temple boards for backward classes, SCs, STs and women

Scroll Staff
· Sep 13, 2019 · 11:11 pm