The exercise – India’s first fully digital census – will include caste enumeration, deploy around 3 million field ...

Today, Hauz Khas is a chic neighbourhood in southern Delhi that is popular with wealthy urbanites. But parts of the area were classified as rural in 2011, when India’s last census was conducted.

In the 1990s, the Anthropological Survey of India presented a book that summarized seven years of field research on the country’s most backward castes – the volume was titled “Scheduled Castes.” The ...

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian government ...

Information Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw didn’t say when the census would begin when he announced it would include caste information Wednesday. He said the decision demonstrated New Delhi’s commitment to ...

India’s democracy and development rest on an unglamorous but decisive foundation: counting that brings power to society and ...

Chandigarh: The Haryana government has formally initiated comprehensive preparations for the digital Census 2027, which will ...

Census 2027: The Union Cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday gave its formal approval to conduct the Census of India 2027, and sanctioned Rs 11,718 crore for the exercise, which will ...

India announces Census 2027 in two phases, introducing digital data collection and first caste enumeration in 70+ years.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country. Information ...