In India, love is not only commercialised but also deeply politicised. Caste, class, and religion dictate the boundaries of ...

Within the Indian caste system, occupations were historically inherited. That, combined with social stratification—especially through endogamy, where people only marry within caste distinctions ...

A Dalit woman and a Muslim man had an affair. The man’s mother opposed their marriage, hurling caste-based abuses at the ...

This constitutes the third pillar of caste, endogamy, i.e. restricting marriage within the same caste, an ironclad foundation of the system that is enforced brutally and can be violated only at a ...

I didn’t vote for white nationalism. I didn’t vote for nativism. I didn’t vote to be called stinky or be dehumanised,” declares Indian American data engineer S ...

The custom varies from community to community, but arranged marriage is often a way of ensuring that a family continues its religious traditions or caste. "There is marriage endogamy and exogamy ...