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Explore the origins of the caste system, rooted in political and economic factors rather than purity, pollution, or race.

An Allahabad High Court order recommending the inclusion of content on the dangers of caste prejudice in school curriculum has come as a jolt for the national textbook preparation body, which has ...

What is caste? The answer is complex, and borrowing a Portuguese word casta to understand India’s multi-layered social fabric doesn’t always help. For a start, contrary to Krishna’s quote in Bhagavad ...

Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, coordinated, and directed various community and nonprofit organizations. She has conducted in-depth research on social and economic issues ...

If you've read novels like The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy or A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, you'll be painfully aware of the ubiquitous discrimination against Untouchables -- or Dalits - ...

The tendency in this moment, as in many others, is to speak of India as a unitary society. Of course it is not, and the largest share of those writing, posting, and reading about Black Lives Matter ...

[BR] Ambedkar’s politics is an example of the lower caste’s articulation of caste in the public sphere which unsettles the boundaries and strives to “recover a space for the language of caste in the ...

Like every society all over the world, we have a reality persisting and affecting our lives for centuries, which many of us don’t really like to own up to. In certain societies it might be the race of ...

As Janmashtami neared, the group discussed Krishna and “agreed” that the deity had committed “a grave crime by sanctifying ...