In addition, caste has allowed countless groups that have migrated into India to find a place and to play an important role. The caste system, as it actually works in India is called jati. The term ...

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 ...

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.

"All states are directed to make changes in accordance with the judgement." India's caste system, which splits up Hindus into ...

India, a nation of staggering diversity ... true social and economic realities of our people through a caste census. The caste system, a deep-rooted reality in Indian society, has shaped access ...

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.

Over 250 million people worldwide continue to suffer under what is often a hidden apartheid of segregation, modern-day slavery ... by the individual. Caste denotes a system of rigid social ...

In its annual report on global inequity, titled 'Takers, not Makers,' Oxfam International has cited several studies to claim ...

Shikari: The Hunt; Yashwant Chittal; Translated by Pratibha Umashankar-Nadiger Penguin Random House; Pp 341, Rs 399. When it was published in 1979, Shikari was a novel that talked about caste and ...