The Indian government officially abolished the caste system in 1950. But discrimination persists across South Asia against Dalits, a group of people from historically oppressed caste communities ...

Most children in India are taught about the four-fold caste system that emerges in the Vedas. However, in real life, these ...

Brandeis University banned caste discrimination over complaints from some Hindus in 2019; the California State University system added caste to their nondiscrimination policy in early 2022. Richa ...

India, June 6 -- Aravindan Neelakandan in his 'A Dharmic Social History of India' has sought to deconstruct the widely held views on the Indian caste system. That the Indian caste system is rigid ...

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.

Thenmozhi Soundararajan is the executive director of Equality Labs, a civil rights organization that works on issues of caste in tech. Back in April, Thenmozhi was invited to give a talk at Google ...

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 concept of pure and impure food in Hinduism dates back to the Dharmasutras, Vedic texts written by different authors between BCE 700 and BCE 100, TS Syam Kumar, a Sanskrit scholar and teacher ...

Several studies have traced the roots of the caste system to the Chaturvarnya system or four-fold division of society, as mentioned in the Purusha Shukta, the 19th hymn of the tenth Mandala of the Rig ...

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Importantly, Neelakandan’s approach to the Indian caste system has the potential to open the space for a healthy discourse. The author makes a case for new social science in India.