Bengaluru: The controversial caste census report submitted by the Backward Classes Commission to the Congress-led government in Karnataka has pegged the Muslim population in the state at 18.08 per ...

Maharashtra’s decision to scrap the 5% Muslim reservation in education and jobs faces a legal challenge in the Bombay High Court.

The Maharashtra government on Tuesday scrapped the process of providing caste verification and validation certificates to Muslims, formally closing a 2014 policy to provide 5% reservations to the ...

It calls for a “spatial approach” of targeted interventions in Muslim-concentrated spaces and “ghettos” and in sectors and occupations dominated by Muslims. Muslims are India’s largest religious ...

NEW YORK, November 2, 2016—The veteran Indian journalist and author of the book Being the Other: The Muslim in India Saeed Naqvi discusses the role Muslims play in the traditional caste system ...

The Assam government has initiated preparatory measures to conduct a comprehensive caste census aimed at documenting and distinguishing the indigenous Muslim communities of the state, Chief Minister ...

Mumbai: Days after the BJP-led Mahayuti government scrapped the order on issuing caste certificates and caste validity certificates to Muslims under the Special Backward Category – A, Samajwadi Party ...

It’s election season in India’s most populous state, a time when Uttar Pradesh’s political campaigners hold raucous rallies and beat the streets making lofty promises to curry favor with the multitude ...

The university construes antisemitism, Islamophobia, and caste to be included within the university’s current prohibitions on discrimination or harassment, which may be based on the protected classes ...