Fact checked by Suzanne Kvilhaug Reviewed by Andy Smith The Caste System: An Overview Discrimination against individuals based on caste would seem to be a relic of the past. Even in India, where ...

A caste system often uses discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. It continues to have an impact on contemporary society in many areas of the world.

The Caste System: An Overview . Discrimination against individuals based on caste would seem to be a relic of the past. Even in India, where the caste system was most rigid, the practice has been ...

So poor and deprived are the Musahars they have often had to subsist on a diet of rodents, leading to their nomenclature. It's been almost 75 years since India's caste system was abolished by the ...

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

A caste census will reveal India’s worst-kept secret The hierarchical identity system continues to divide the nation of 1.4 billion people almost 100 years after calls for its abolition.

Devdutt Pattanaik explores how caste restricts mobility while conversion enables freedom, framing them as conflicting forces in Indian society.

Shailaja Paik faced prejudice because of her family's Dalit caste and her gender. As a historian she's written ground-breaking books on India's Dalits and is now a MacArthur 'genius grant' awardee.

Yet, increasingly, young people across India are resisting this conservative system and are guided by love and affection rather than caste. Sunil and Sulochana have faced several such barriers. But, ...

(RNS) — Many Buddhists today trace their social justice activism to the work of BR Ambedkar, the Indian caste abolitionist who once led a mass conversion of Dalits, or lower caste, to Buddhism.