NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Ram Nath Kovind, a low-caste politician backed by the ruling Hindu nationalist-led coalition, easily won India's presidential election on Thursday, tightening the government's ...

By tying caste recognition to religion, the law risks excluding those who continue to face the same discrimination it seeks ...

Whenever you think of Kerala, you think of red,” one young woman told me in 2010, “even if it is light red.” Kerala is known ...

"No relief has reached the community properly till now. During the distribution of food relief there has been priority to the families having concrete houses, people having connections with leaders of ...

India’s rural water crisis is also a caste crisis—where women walk for water, Dalits are pushed back in queues, and big dam projects deepen injustice.

Readjusting means getting used to the kind of things you’ll hear on return-to-India subreddits and social media groups. The ...

Yogi Adityanath’s greatest strength is his identity as a sannyasi. A true renunciate has no personal family or caste of his ...

As India begins its first Census in 16 years, Censusnama traces how counting people shaped representation, welfare, caste ...

India's unusually severe heat wave has killed more than 200 people and made tens of thousands ill so far. Amid these extreme weather conditions, there are concerns about the country's marginalised ...

CHENNAI/NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of poor lower-caste families who lost their homes and jobs after devastating floods swept southern India have been neglected by government ...