what could be considered a caste system, went to great lengths to really think hard about who should qualify as Aryan, because they felt that they wanted to include as many people as they possibly ...

Wilkerson’s visit had been prompted by a book she was writing that used the Indian caste system to illuminate ... an imagined reading of the word “Aryan.” Mid-20th -century social scientists ...

Aryan lore supposedly underlays the early legends of Hinduism; the archaic Hindu caste system is seen by some as the political legacy of an Aryan conquest of India. But a new study adds to ...

This is the third part of an ongoing series, which traces the origins of India’s people and civilization. Previous parts can be found here: Unraveled: Where Indians Come From, Part 1, and, Where ...

It’s the system Pulitzer Prize winning writer and historian Isabel Wilkerson describes in her book Caste: The Origins ... build upon their brewing sense of Aryan superiority.

The resulting incessant national chorus of consensual racialization structures its caste system ... to avoid racial contamination from artifacts of the lower castes instead aggravate it through ...