On the other side of the aisle stands another group of scholars who emphasize that the very genesis of this dress rule can be traced to the implementation of caste rules to control the crucial details ...

Professor Irfan Habib’s reflections on history; WFI office controversy; India’s 75 years of Constitution and its challenges ...

Being an ancient religion Hinduism now is plagued with many wrong and false ideas about it These probably arose over time ...

Forster composed most of this novel in a flurry of concentrated activity while the world was emerging, traumatised, from a ...

The Cholas are credited with popularizing Nataraja bronzes and singing Bhakti songs in temples, among other practices that ...

A History of the Chola Empire’, the historian Anirudh Kanisetti documents the rise and fall of the Chola royal women, be it ...

And yet rebels exist. Not just a teenage dabbler, or a renegade drop-out, but a character strong enough to disrupt the family system; someone willing to turn off the tap. For the Engelhorns ...

Back in the Middle Ages (a.k.a. the Medieval era, approximately 476-1450 A.D.), people's daily lives were very centered around the rules laid out by the church. According to the World History ...

A lot will depend on systematic and thoughtful implementation of the rules against caste-based discrimination ... The least our education system can ensure is their tragedies are not repeated.

The Supreme Court has directed the University Grants Commission (UGC) to submit detailed data on caste discrimination complaints filed under the 2012 regulations in universities and higher education ...

Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in medieval times. Fashionable pointy-toed shoes called poulaines were ...