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Siddhant Chaturvedi and Triptii Dimri's Dhadak 2 is in theatres. It follows a lower-caste boy’s struggles as he falls in love with an upper-class woman.
Oliver Cromwell Cox, a Marxist economist and author of Caste, Class, and Race (1948), strongly rejected the notion of caste to define American race relations.
Article 15 of the Indian Constitution minces no words with its prohibition of discrimination “against any citizen on grounds ...
The Bhils, one of the biggest Adivasi tribes in India, consider themselves direct descendants of Lord Shiva and his wife, ...
Dhadak 2, a daring commentary on caste-based discrimination and violence, released in theatres today, August 1, 2025. The fact that the movie hit the screens days after the alleged honour killing of ...
A caste is a ranking, an order, a top to bottom accounting. The concept of caste — not unlike class, though different in important ways — is thousands of years old, its roots can be ...
Jeffrey Brown: In 1959, Martin Luther King Jr., visiting India and seeing its caste system, realized he was a kind of untouchable in his own land. It's one of many stories told in the new book ...
The city of Seattle became the first U.S. jurisdiction to include caste as a protected class in ordinance CB12051, “An Ordinance Relating to Human Rights; Including Protections Against ...
Class is, in fact, part of how the Indian caste system was founded: a hierarchy that constrained both societal privilege and occupation by rank of birth. Divorcing class from caste in “Origin” is not ...
V S Achuthanandan, a staunch Marxist known for his sharp rhetoric, anti-corruption stance, and unwavering commitment to ...
Kavin Selva Ganesh, a 27-year-old Dalit IT employee, was murdered in Tamil Nadu amid caste-based honour violence linked to ...
On March 12, 2025, the Ninth Circuit issued its decision in Kumar v. Koester, dismissing a constitutional challenge to a university’s anti-discrimination policy that added “caste” as a ...