Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once ...

A caste census will lead to demands for reservations in jobs and education proportional to the population share. Hindu upper castes are anxious that their share will shrink.

Access is not denied in a Buddhist temple on grounds of caste, or any other status. There is also another twist to this. The creation of Amarapura and Ramanna Nikayas indicate that Sri Lanka did not ...

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 ...

“You should have data about to what extent the caste system has been eroded. There, the mind has not yet been applied,” he said. He also noted a reluctance among some proponents of the caste ...

Hyderabad: The caste census has become a flashpoint between the BJP and Congress, with the BJP ramping up its grassroots campaign to challenge the Telangana govt's caste survey. The party leaders ...

The RSS may in theory be ideologically disapproving of giving primacy to the fragmented reality of Hindu identity, but in practical terms, the Sangh knows exactly how the caste system operates and ...

Numbers are the basis of governance; without them, the state loses confidence. In government offices, one may see that every item — electrical panels, fans, chairs — is meticulously numbered ...

The Crisis of Producing Masters For decades, the Sri Lankan education system has been subject to criticism for its failure to ...