THE purpose of this article is to demonstrate that a caste system already exists in North America, and to consider the possibility that the system may, in the future, be extended and organized. Caste ...

The conversation is left hanging because right in the middle of a character study, Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari announces, “Language kills truth.” Before one gets t ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Publisher Information The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), a not-for-profit professional association of educators, is dedicated to ...

“Vanaja,” a film exploring the tensions of the caste system in contemporary rural India, boasts a compelling story on-screen and off. It tells of a 14-year-old girl who takes on domestic work in the ...

Sujatha Gidla’s new book, Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India, is the author’s story of discovering—and wrestling with—her family’s fraught and wrenching history ...

March 30 this year marked the start of the centenary celebrations of an unusual Satyagraha—a non-violent struggle devised by the Father of the Indian nation Mahatma Gandhi—that forced higher castes to ...