In addition, caste has allowed countless groups that have migrated into India to find a place and to play an important role. The caste system, as it actually works in India is called jati. The term ...

The modern caste system developed in India. Fragmentation of the Mughal Empire led, in the centuries prior to the British Raj, to the increasing popularity of caste archetypes as a way to cement ...

Along India ... the modern age they have remained largely self-contained, endogamous (marrying within the tribe), physically distinctive in appearance and outside the Hindu caste system.

The Supreme Court of India granted a final opportunity on Tuesday for states and union territories to comply with its directives to eradicate caste discrimination within prisons. This development ...

They wanted to answer key questions such as; when did modern humans first arrive ... languages and the history of the ...

On February 4, the Telangana government announced the criteria for sub-categorisation of Scheduled Castes (SCs) in the state, as recommended by a one-membe ...