For most, Dhadak 2 is a very sincere film on the politics of caste. Though in terms of narrative its reliance on melodrama ...

Essentially, a caste system is a rigid assignment of social status based on inheritance. Recent history shows that caste discrimination has by no means disappeared, even in the United States.

The caste system in India is not just about social hierarchy—it is also about social and psychological control. It thrives because people believe in it, even when it hurts them (Jost, 2020).

Social segregation is also widespread; only 5% of marriages in India are inter-caste, according to the India Human Development Survey. Similar divides linger in friend groups, workplaces, and ...

“Caste organizes social life not only among Hindus but also in Muslim, Christian, Sikh and Buddhist communities in the region. It is an intergenerational system based on birth into a caste group.

Yashica Dutt, author of “Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System,” reads an excerpt to an audience at Northwestern University in Evanston on May 1. Dutt also spoke at ...

They fitted jati or caste into a hierarchical social structure of four categories. Each category or class, symbolized by a "color" (varna in Sanskrit), contains hundreds of castes. (See table below.) ...