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The Indian government has long insisted that the social hierarchy has no place in the country, which banned caste discrimination in 1950.
A chat with Dr Anil Jaihind, the man credited with the idea of Samvidhan Sabhas to spread awareness about the Indian Constitution ...
Investigating caste issues is crucial for understanding India's socioeconomic dynamics and addressing systemic inequalities.
Tiwari is attracting many like her—proud Brahmins wounded by India’s reservation system. Her followers are urging her to form ...
More than two-thirds of country’s 1.4 billion people estimated to be on lower rungs of archaic social hierarchy that grades Hindus by birth ...
With the Centre giving the nod to include caste data in the upcoming population census, the long-standing debate over a caste ...
Nixing insinuations that caste enumeration would create chasms in society, National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) ...
In terms of environmental impact, non-interoperable, non-democratized supply chains harm the environment. More warehouses, ...
Sikhism, considered one of the youngest religions in the world, has since its inception denounced the caste system. Yet caste ...
India’s caste system has roots in Hindu scriptures, and historically sorted the population into a hierarchy that defined people’s occupations, where they can live and who they can marry based ...