What the latest US census reveals about racial and ethnic diversity and what India can learn from it

A caste census would truly enable India to understand the demographic grammars through which caste is lived and experienced in everyday terms.

Nikhil Pandhi

· Aug 22, 2021 · 09:00 am

Inter-caste marriage plea: ‘A girl is an independent soul,’ says Himachal Pradesh HC

The petitioner alleged that the family of the woman had illegally detained her against her wishes to prevent their marriage.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 23, 2021 · 05:16 pm

BJP’s decision to collect caste data in 2021 census pivots India’s politics firmly towards OBCs

The ruling party is trying to engineer a potent vote bank by adding lower castes among the Other Backward Classes to its core upper caste support base.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Sep 14, 2018 · 09:00 am

Enough silence: At Mumbai’s Ramabai colony, Dalit protestors say they face discrimination every day

The community wants the people who attacked its members in Bhima Koregaon arrested immediately.

Priyanka Vora

· Jan 04, 2018 · 06:30 am

‘We won’t remain silent against these atrocities’: Dalit anger spills over in eastern Mumbai

The community is agitated about the attack on its members in Pune’s Bhima Koregaon.

Priyanka Vora

· Jan 03, 2018 · 06:30 am

Assault on Dalit youth in Kerala sparks a debate on the Left's double standards

The alleged attack took place a week before Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula's death anniversary, which the student group plans to commemorate across the state.

TA Ameerudheen

· Jan 17, 2017 · 12:30 pm

Stories of love and hope: Scenes from Chaityabhoomi on BR Ambedkar's 60th death anniversary

Hundreds of thousands of Dalits gathered in Mumbai on Tuesday to pay their respects to the scholar-reformer.

Aarefa Johari

· Dec 07, 2016 · 06:30 am

Rohith Vemula's mother, brother convert to Buddhism in Mumbai

Dr BR Ambedkar's grandson oversaw the formal ceremony that was held at the Ambedkar Bhavan in Dadar.

Scroll Staff

· Apr 14, 2016 · 08:00 am

To save Goa's syncretic temple architecture, Bahujans must take over Brahmanical shrines

The struggle for the Navdurga temple in Marcaim is a step in the right direction.

Amita Kanekar

· Apr 02, 2016 · 02:30 pm

May 15: It was 79 years ago today that Ambedkar's 'Annihilation Of Caste' was published

The book was priced at 8 annas. Gandhi wanted the price reduced to 4 annas, or even 2 annas.

S. Anand

· May 15, 2015 · 08:30 am

The inhuman plight of manual scavengers continues as all states miss deadline on listing dry toilets

Not a single state has completed a crucial survey of dry toilets cleaned by manual scavengers that was due last month, making it impossible to rehabilitate them.

Aarefa Johari

· Mar 06, 2014 · 07:48 am