India's caste system is 3,000 years old and continues to determine the opportunities that most of the country's 1.4 billion ...

Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once ...

Anjum Manhas India, characterized by vast diversity, carries the complex legacy of the caste system-a centuries-old social ...

The demand for a nationwide caste census in India has re-emerged as a focal point of socio-political discourse. At the heart ...

Caste, a social structure in India, is now central to politics. Parties analyze caste composition before candidate selection.

The caste census is not a step toward equality. It locks people into fixed roles, deepens divides, and strengthens the ...

Governments use numbers for governance, from colonial censuses to modern caste politics, shaping India's social fabric and ...

India's government is set to include caste details in the upcoming population census, after delays due to the pandemic. This ...

Across the world, May 1 is set aside to honour the dignity of labour and the long struggle for workers’ rights. In India, ...

The Purusha Suktam of the Rig Veda (10.90) is a profound hymn that envisions the Virat Purusha, the Cosmic Being, as the ...