The caste system, as it actually works in India is called jati. The term jati appears in almost all Indian languages and is related to the idea of lineage or kinship group. There are perhaps more than ...

Dalits Excluded from the ‘caste system’, the people who are today called Dalits traditionally tackled the dirtiest tasks of society Dalit work traditionally included dealing with sewage ...

The bench observed that “the conferment of Scheduled Caste communal status to the appellant, who is a Christian by religion, but claims to be still embracing Hinduism only for the purpose of ...