Discrimination based on birth was outlawed in India in 1950 but the legacy of the caste system continues to be felt around ...

Illiterate and married off at age 10, Chaumar was forced into the only livelihood her family has known for generations. As a ...

Challenging Caste unpacks the violent clash between anti-caste movements and Brahminical forces, revealing how caste, class, ...

They perform work that’s considered undignified or “befouling” and this may not even be considered a proper caste. The system considers Dalits to be “unclean” and interaction with them ...

Dalits' battle for temple entry sheds light on the state's rarely discussed caste-based oppression and covert caste conflict.

India’s Supreme Court issued a notice to a church and local authorities in the southern state of Tamil Nadu on a petition ...

Rahul Gandhi criticises merit as an upper-caste narrative, pushes caste census and meets OBC representatives, drawing sharp ...

Rahul Gandhi also asserted that the system of merit was ‘unfair and upper class narrative,’ prompting a severe backlash from ...

In a recent interview with Professor Sukhadeo Thorat, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticized India's merit system as ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for stressing the need for a caste census, a day ...