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BENGALURU: A glaring discrepancy in the number of individuals claiming Scheduled Caste (SC) benefits under the Budaga Jangama ...

Even as daughters are being educated, the families consider it their foremost duty to see them properly married ...

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 ...

Councilmember Strauss is proposing an amendment that would fully fund the environmental learning program for kids and ...

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.

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

After centuries of domination, surprisingly it is the ‘Brahminical-Gene’ which is under all sorts of threats. Now, the threat ...

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) ...

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 ...

Caste-based surveys carried out by several states ... he argued and enumerated various practices such as endogamy, occupational distinctions, hierarchy and notions of impurity existing amongst ...