Aravindan Neelakandan in his 'A Dharmic Social History of India' has sought to deconstruct the widely held views on the ...

Sanskrit was seen as the language of divinity, thus the main current of Sanskrit knowledge tended to be conservative, ...

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian ...

The CUET UG syllabus for History 2025 consists of topics like - Harappan Archaeology ... Issues in social history, including caste, class, kinship, and gender. Story of discovery: Transmission ...

Outraged by the controversy, Anurag Kashyap questioned how the Brahmins still exist if Prime Minister Narendra Modi has successfully eradicated the caste system in India. In an Instagram post ...

His notable works include The Agrarian System of Mughal India, Essays in Indian History ... He particularly takes issue with her portrayal of early Indian society, critiquing her stance on caste ...

While settlements in the Kutch region date back more than three millennia, as evident from excavated Harappan sites at ... an already cleaved political system. While the book’s focus is on ...

Why do people defend social systems that oppress them? Why do the marginalized sometimes work to uphold structures and arrangements that limit their potential? These questions are not just ...

Benegal’s series begins in the Harappan civilisation and culminates in Independence ... Formation’ which ends with the declaration that ‘it is impossible for caste system to endure’, or that it must ...

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