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 ...

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.

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 ...

On February 4, the Telangana government announced the criteria for sub-categorisation of Scheduled Castes (SCs) in the state, as recommended by a one-membe ...

A modern historian ... US even as India continues to reckon with it. The historian said that to tackle discrimination, it was ...

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 ...

The Supreme Court of India granted a final opportunity on Tuesday for states and union territories to comply with its directives to eradicate caste discrimination within prisons. This development ...