“Caste is class in India, and class is caste,” he said. “It is an extremely unequal society, and that has been a bit of a eye-opener for me. And it came much later, and it came because I was ...

Depictions of artisans, labourers and tradespeople captured Indian society and discrimination, and the driving ideology has ...

In his book Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott reminds us that modern states rely on simplification, of forests into timber, ...

Sociologist Prof. K Kalyani teaches at the School of Arts and Sciences at Azim Premji University in Bengaluru. She researches ...

In a deeply troubling incident that underscores the persistence of caste-based discrimination in parts of rural India, around ...

Most children in India are taught about the four-fold caste system that emerges in the Vedas. However, in real life, these ...

A total of 30 lakh enumerators, primarily school teachers, are estimated to be deployed for the conduct of Census. Caste ...

Subhash Garg Ji, Congratulations for writing this well researched article on “Caste.” Western world abhors India (Bharat). I was shocked that many Hindus support this SB 403.

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 ...

Dalits were burned alive in Kilvenmani village in present-day Nagapattinam district in Tamil Nadu following a labourers’ ...