NEW DELHI—When Amrita Mishra passed the bar exam, she rushed out to pick up one of the biggest perks of being a lawyer in India: an “Advocate” sticker to slap on the window of her car.

In India, love is not only commercialised but also deeply politicised. Caste, class, and religion dictate the boundaries of ...

But enforcement has been spotty. The popularity of stickers—and the deference they can inspire—is partly a reflection of India’s longstanding caste system, in which some people command ...

This system of gaining status is based on power. Power is usually achieved status rather than a role that is dealt at birth. People in India participate in the caste game, the class game, and the ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the third annual conference on social exclusion in South Asia on Friday, April 28.

that their names not be mentioned — an unfortunate indicator of the volatility surrounding the issue of caste conflict in India. We would like to express our gratitude to the many Dalit men ...

into the caste system. It’s propagated by a section of postmodern intellectuals and woke or liberal lobbyists. It poses a threat to India’s sociocultural cohesion. To equate caste with race ...

More than 240 million people in South Asia live a precarious existence, shunned by much of society because of their ranks as untouchables or Dalits at the bottom of a rigid caste system.

A recent wealth distribution survey revealed that just 22% of upper caste hindus own almost 41% of the total wealth in India. According to the survey, the Scheduled Tribes accounted for the lowest ...