New York Times journalist Isabel Wilkerson in her excellent book: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, compares and contrasts the Indian caste system. She also provides evidence that Nazi Germany ...

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST Ramanujar: The Life And Ideas Of Ramanuja Indira Parthasarathy Translated from Tamil by T Sriraman Oxford University Press 196 pages, ...

Atul Kumar, the son of a daily wage worker and from the Scheduled Caste community ... With rising costs in the Indian education system, many students from the marginalised communities are unable ...

Such taunts based on caste – a rigid social stratification system in South Asia that assigns individuals their social standing at birth – now face greater scrutiny in Australia due to new ...

The process of linking an aadhaar with caste certificate will curtail corruption within the education system as the righteous database will check the growth of fake certificates. Please Note ...

Caste certificate is an essential document that certifies that a person belongs to a particular religion, community and caste. Citizens of Odisha need to obtain a caste certificate to avail the ...

Temples are a part of our community life. Hence, changes in dress code have to accompany the changes in social patterns.

Analysis by the writers of this article based on household surveys by the National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) unravels stark caste-based disparities in employment probabilities and wage earnings ...

Hearing a PIL filed by the mothers of Rohit Vemula and Payal Tadvi alleging caste discrimination in higher educational institutions, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan asked the UGC to ...

Terming it as a sensitive issue, the Supreme Court on Friday said it will devise an effective mechanism to combat caste-based discrimination in educational institutions in the country.

SC directed the UGC to furnish data on the number of institutions that had established equal opportunity cells in compliance with the UGC equity regulations. Terming it as a sensitive issue, the ...

In an interview with ThePrint, Paswan spoke at length on several issues, including the demand for a caste census and the ‘One Nation, One Election’ bills introduced in Lok Sabha Tuesday. He also ...