The Indian government has long insisted that the social hierarchy has no place in the country, which banned caste discrimination in 1950.

Investigating caste issues is crucial for understanding India's socioeconomic dynamics and addressing systemic inequalities.

Numerous Indian Christians come from Dalit and Tribal backgrounds, many drawn to the gospel as a means of fleeing the Hindu social order’s oppressive caste system. In 2008, a government report ...

“The Americans who did not know this, whenever they see a Hindu now, the first question they ask is, ‘What is your caste?'” California, where a vast number of Indian immigrants ...

"The simplest way to explain it is that it is an inherited system ... how caste, social stigma around caste and exploitation can still prevail. Caste systems can be found among Buddhists ...

LUCKNOW, India, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The family of an Indian teenager from ... van in protest at the boy's death. India's caste system is among the world's oldest forms of rigid social stratification.