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 ...

A Google search for basic information on India's caste system lists many sites that, with varying degrees of emphasis, outline three popular tropes on the phenomenon. First, the caste system is a ...

The issue of a caste census is torn between the ideas of social justice and political correctness.

Caste hatred in India - what it looks like How the British reshaped India's caste system In the videos, which are shot at home and have more than a million views, Ms Dikshit talks about the ...

In a caste system, people are put into fixed social groups under a hierarchy that often relies upon discriminatory notions of ...

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.

This system of gaining status is based on power. Power is usually achieved status rather than a role that is dealt at birth. People in India participate in the caste game, the class game, and the ...

In a small, crowded tenement in the slums of India's Pune city ... it was crucial for those enjoying advantages of the caste system to acknowledge its existence globally instead of shying away ...

Dalit – Member of what was traditionally considered to be the lowest caste in the Indian caste system. Previously referred to as ‘untouchable’. Deccan – Plateau in South Central India.

that their names not be mentioned — an unfortunate indicator of the volatility surrounding the issue of caste conflict in India. We would like to express our gratitude to the many Dalit men ...

Akshat Jain examines the symbolism, politics and legal ramifications of the rushed replacement of the statue of Lady Justice ...

It is also, as Rahul Gandhi noted in Hyderabad earlier this week, “a blueprint for the national caste survey that the INDIA coalition’s government will conduct,” he said. “This census and ...