Caste, a word foreign in origin but deeply immersed in India's identity today, has travelled centuries and continents. From colonial classification to present-day politics, it continues to define ...

Nothing else will serve as the solvent of caste.” The sociologist, M.N. Srinivas, also observed that caste endogamy is a major mechanism for perpetuating caste (Caste in Modern India and Other Essays) ...

A proposed new law, named after a student whose tragic death high lighted a deep-seated crisis, offers significant hope for tackling caste discrimination in India's higher education system.

Traditionally a group of agriculturists with martial customs interlacing their day-to-day lives, the Coorgis practise family exogamy and caste endogamy, the paper notes. However, the community’s ...

The privileged Brahminical-Gene despises anything that would quantify their accumulated privilege at the cost of others.

Practices such as family exogamy and caste endogamy have likely helped preserve the genetic separation of these three lineages over centuries, Delhi University geneticist B.K. Thelma and her ...

Indian society's caste system, rooted in ancient texts and practices, has evolved from a rigid varna model to a modern ...

The informal economy’s most vulnerable become convenient scapegoats for attendant concerns about jobs and cultural change.

Vinothraj gave us a road trip movie, a “possession” drama, and a withering denunciation of caste endogamy for the price of one. And he dared to do it all without a background score.

His close readings of canonical films like Sujata, Sholay, and Swades illuminate how popular cinema often upholds ‘upper caste’ moralities while relegating Dalit characters to symbolic or peripheral ...