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New Delhi — 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 ...

New Delhi (AFP) – India will conduct its first official caste census since independence, the government announced on Wednesday, a move likely to have far-reaching consequences for its politics ...