Identity and caste are common currency denominations in Uttar Pradesh—for the privileged as much as for caste-emancipatory politics. The government has now issued a directive that outlaws a central ...

Vijayawada: Deputy Chief Minister and Jana Sena chief K Pawan Kalyan asserted that he has never practiced politics using the ...

JURIST Senior Editor for Long Form Content Pitasanna Shanmugathas interviews Vijay Prashad, Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, chief editor of LeftWord Books, and ...

"Votebank" politics Figuring out which party can win in Uttar Pradesh depends on complex caste equations and what political strategists call “votebank” politics. Or, as the saying goes: It’s not how ...

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On October 2, the government of the eastern Indian state of Bihar released the report of a survey on the state’s population by caste – a traditional hierarchical division in Hindu society. The state ...

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The party’s top leadership believes that with the BJP wooing upper-caste voters, the Congress still has the potential to win ...

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s failure to identify slavery as the primary cause of the Civil War has created a firestorm. But the press is missing an important issue when reporting on ...

People line up outside a polling booth to cast their votes during voting for the Kerala state legislature elections in Kochi, India, April 6, 2021. Credit: AP Photo/R S Iyer Subscribe for ads-free ...

This year’s general election in India arguably brought up more questions about the fairness of the electoral process than any other in the country’s history. For example, in December, a bill was ...