Being born in India means inheriting a place in an ancient social system which will dominate much of your life, from where you can live to who you can marry. Now, the government wants to know more ...

Creation of Dharma to uphold varna/caste system: How Sanatana Dharma is closely ... One who serves a Brahmin sincerely will win over Brahma, Shiva, himself and all the gods. He goes on to say ...

Despite being outlawed in 1950, India's caste system continues to dictate almost ... based on the different body parts of Brahma, the Hindu god of creation. Brahmins are the holders of ...

Dallas Stribley / Getty Images A caste system segregates people into fixed social groups based on discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. People are placed into fixed social groups in ...

Any number of random metrics could be used to divide and rank people in a caste system—ethnicity, lineage, religion, language. In our case, the early colonists took otherwise neutral ...

Purnima Dhavan, a history professor at the University of Washington who specializes in the social and cultural history of early modern south Asia, can help explain the complex caste system.

Twice-impeached former president Donald Trump apparently thinks that the U.S. government should be a caste system, rather than a democracy — but that doesn’t mean he can explain how a caste ...

Two Hindu professors are suing the head of their university system to oppose the addition of caste to an anti-discrimination policy amid a broader battle over whether colleges should explicitly ...

Representative image (Picture credit: Copilot AI image) The caste system has played a decisive role in the complex social structure of India since ancient times. In ancient and medieval society ...