India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party doesn’t take kindly to people who disrupt the country’s caste system. For those who don’t know, the caste system is a 3,000-year-old Hindu theological ...

Dalit-themed films in India have frequently faced pushback from both the CBFC and certain social groups. More recently, Santosh, a critically acclaimed Hindi-language film by British-Indian ...

Focusing primarily on the Bene Israel and Baghdadis in the late 19th and 20th centuries, Joan Roland describes how identities begun under the Indian caste system changed with British colonial rule, ...

More than 240 million people in South Asia live a precarious existence, shunned by much of society because of their ranks as untouchables or Dalits at the bottom of a rigid caste system.

As far back as 1923, lawmakers in British-ruled India had flagged concerns over ... While most stakeholders agree that the system needs reform, critics fear the new bill will not improve the ...