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 ...

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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 ...

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

[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 ...

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 - ...

Anand Teltumbde mines data and history to analyse the narrow framing, as well as futility, of a caste census in his new book ...

The last successful exercise to record this ancient, hierarchical social identity, conducted by British colonial rulers in 1931, threw up more than 4,000 answers.