SC quashes plea opposing panel formed to examine giving Scheduled Caste status to converted Dalits

The plea contended that the commission may delay a petition pending for nearly 20 years on the matter.

Scroll Staff

· Jan 24, 2023 · 11:03 am

No commission formed to examine giving Scheduled Caste status to converted Dalits, Centre tells LS

However, on October 6, the government had issued a notification announcing a panel to study according SC status to Dalit converts.

Scroll Staff

· Dec 14, 2022 · 11:38 am

Who benefits from keeping Dalits ‘Hindu’

The narrative of Muslims and Christians being casteless is more significant to India’s handling of caste than we assume.

Shireen Azam

 & 

Sumit Samos

· Nov 03, 2022 · 06:30 am

Centre forms commission to examine giving Scheduled Caste status to converted Dalits

Presently, only Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists can be accorded the status.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 07, 2022 · 05:13 pm

India at 75: If being casteless is impossible, can freedom be possible?

The first in an exclusive series of essays to mark the 75th anniversary of India’s independence, by winners of the New India Foundation Fellowship for writers.

Suryakant Waghmore

· Aug 11, 2022 · 08:30 am

Civil society organisations need to stop ignoring caste and diversify their leadership

In the neo-liberal world order, civil society organisations are treating only the symptoms of entrenched power structures and social inequality

Arun Kumar

 & 

Diksha Shriyan

· Feb 06, 2022 · 09:00 am

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