Bihar released the results of a historic caste-based survey in October 2023, mapping the state’s demographic and economic landscape. This comprehensive exercise counted all castes for the first time ...

Candidate from BUXAR Constituency, Bihar Assembly Election Results 2025 - Explore Anand Mishra political career, age, past ...

In the last Assembly elections, the number of Bhumihar MLAs rose from 17 to 27 In the past, Bhumihars have led movements against reservations, wielding influence in wealth, agriculture, politics, and ...

Bharat Ek Soch: As Bihar approaches its elections, voters are faced with the crucial task of determining the future government and opposition. The pressing question remains: what factors will ...

Bihar’s political future for the next five years will be decided on November 14, with the state polls also seen as a barometer of the national mood nearly two years after the BJP-led NDA returned to ...

Caste politics in Bihar did not begin with Lalu Prasad Yadav. Its origins go further back to the 1920s, when land, labour and ritual intersected. The Mandal Commission transformed Bihar’s power ...

The centrality of caste in Bihar’s political life offers a compelling case for rethinking global theories of ethnic politics and underscore their limits in explaining India’s democratic experience.

In his new book, The Caste Con Census, Anand Teltumbde argues that a caste census will be just another means of keeping the caste system going. In this excerpt, he discusses why Narendra Modi aims to ...

NEW DELHI As Bihar prepares to go to the polls in November, HT is launching an in-house caste database of the state’s legislators, covering 3,629 MLAs elected over 15 assembly elections from 1962 to ...