The quest for Vedic civilisation is a dream project of the caste-Hindus in India directed by the syndrome of Brahmanical cultural nationalism and the homogeneity of tradition.

The political trajectory of Moovalur’s life, meticulously documented, tells us that she was her own person in both the ...

The decline of the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), one of the earliest and most advanced urban cultures of the ancient world, remains one of the greatest mysteries in archaeology. Known for its ...

Slavery as a way of life is ancient ... strength of the Turko-Persian Aryans – with the word Arya meaning ‘rich and noble’- gave rise to the caste system. In Hinduism, the word ‘arya ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

While Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been seeking a pan-India caste census, the party high command prevented the tabling of a caste survey report, commissioned a decade ago, in party-ruled Karnataka ...

Upper-caste landlords’ farmlands were the sun in the solar system of serfdom. This barter order sustained the caste order ... Once at the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI), in fall 2007, I ...

White inmates, who were a minority in the prison system, were particularly angry after being stripped of their power, and in 1981 a group of them decided to form a prison gang along racial lines. The ...

The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Thursday demanded a comprehensive caste census in the country, calling the exercise crucial to understanding the socio-economic conditions of backward classes. The party ...

India becomes the fourth country to join the selected League of Nations for Space Docking with the 'Bharatiya Docking System' India has made a a big leap in space technology, and has been added to ...