Dallas Stribley / Getty Images A caste system segregates people into fixed social groups based on discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. People are placed into fixed social groups in ...

The gated and walled communities of 4,500-year-old Harappan cities ... Now we have a neo-varna system: General Category (GC), ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the third annual conference on social exclusion in South Asia on Friday, April 28.

India's caste system is among the world's oldest forms of surviving social stratification. The BBC explains its complexities. The system which divides Hindus into rigid hierarchical groups based ...

He also asserted that the system of merit was “unfair and upper caste narrative,” prompting a severe backlash from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Rahul Gandhi made the remarks in a post ...

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.