Bengaluru: After being snubbed by Rahul Gandhi over the caste census report, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's effort to get a flash survey done has raked up yet another controversy. While the ...

After an uproar in political circles over the “inclusion of new castes” in the Christian sub-caste category, the Karnataka State Commission for Backward Classes will mask 33 Christian sub-castes in ...

In April 2025, the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs approved the enumeration of caste in the Decennial Census to be carried out in 2026-27. This was a surprising moment in Indian politics, ...

In the junked 2015 survey, there were 15.64 lakh Brahmins in the state. A total of 11.85 lakh people enumerated themselves as just ‘Brahmana’. The remaining 3.79 lakh are divided among 58 sub-castes.

Koppal: The All-Karnataka Brahmin Mahasabha's Koppal district unit voiced its opposition to the addition of the sub-castes within the Brahmin community on the State Backward Classes Commission's ...

A day after several Cabinet Ministers took exception to the inclusion of “new castes” to the list of castes for the socio-educational survey, starting from September 22, the Karnataka State Commission ...

Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday announced that the controversial “Christian” nomenclature utilised in the draft list of castes prepared by the State Backward Classes Commission had ...

BENGALURU: Welcoming the socio-economic survey being carried out by the state government, Archbishop of Bengaluru Peter Machado has left the decision of adding ‘caste’ to Christian community members.