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 ...

What is 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 ...

AE Porter, in his report on the 1931 Census in Bengal, said the return of ‘no caste’ was accepted from those who “have actively ceased to conform to the caste system,” broken rules in ...

A caste system often uses discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. It continues to have an impact on contemporary society in many areas of the world.

The caste system in India is not just about social hierarchy—it is also about social and psychological control. It thrives because people believe in it, even when it hurts them (Jost, 2020).

NEW DELHI — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world's most populous country.

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 ...

The Indian government has long insisted that the social hierarchy has no place in the country, which banned caste discrimination in 1950. India’s caste system is controversial and discriminatory.