Mirroring India’s caste system of social hierarchy ... research institutes — roughly correspond to these communities’ representation in the population, according to the most recent census ...

Risley had a dramatic influence on the rise of caste ... caste system from all over the subcontinent. In the late 19th century, upper-caste Indian elites sought political reforms and ...

California might become the first state in the nation to ban discrimination based on caste, a hierarchical system based on birth that affects ... and South Asian activists arguing over the correct ...

Though the system is now illegal in India ... With respect to caste, there is no official or unofficial data around representation. And Google has not shown any intent to collect any sort of ...

While data can empower communities, it reinforces identities, making local politics more caste-centric, with decisions increasingly contested on the grounds of representation. Such dynamics could ...

Art being a representation ... graphic novel A Travancore Tale and Vinayan’s film Pathonpatham Noottand visualise Nangeli as the warrior of the female dignity, as the one who fought for the right to ...

What she creates is a book that fundamentally exposes the insidious and global nature of caste systems. Caste is a system of classifying ... and I research Dalit representation in film.

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian ...

Dallas Stribley / Getty Images A caste system segregates people into fixed social groups based on discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. People are placed into fixed social groups in ...

Mohan Bhagwat’s statement that the caste system should be dismantled to promote national unity has evoked both surprise and suspicion. In its centenary year, is the RSS willing to walk the talk ...

They were all Dalits, once deemed untouchable by India’s hierarchical caste system. Such episodes have ... of the people who work with us.” The representation of Dalits and other marginalized ...