The informal economy’s most vulnerable become convenient scapegoats for attendant concerns about jobs and cultural change.

The privileged Brahminical-Gene despises anything that would quantify their accumulated privilege at the cost of others.

His close readings of canonical films like Sujata, Sholay, and Swades illuminate how popular cinema often upholds ‘upper caste’ moralities while relegating Dalit characters to symbolic or peripheral ...

Young adults are faced with a world of choices when it comes to selecting a wardrobe food education friends vehicles cellphone eapplications entertainment and ideology However they are expected to sta ...

Nothing else will serve as the solvent of caste.” The sociologist, M.N. Srinivas, also observed that caste endogamy is a major mechanism for perpetuating caste (Caste in Modern India and Other Essays) ...

Census is still some time away, but some unusual groups are looking at it with very mixed feelings. For Dalit Christians and ...

Traditionally a group of agriculturists with martial customs interlacing their day-to-day lives, the Coorgis practise family exogamy and caste endogamy, the paper notes. However, the community’s ...

The 2025 movie “Court – State vs. A Nobody” is a Telugu courtroom drama centering around the misuse of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act (POCSO)-2012 as a way to penalize ...

At the same time, she also recognises the role played—or not—by churches across India that further perpetuate the caste system. “Endogamy in the Christian community, where people do not ...

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

Some young middle-class women in Ghaziabad have little hope that love will lead to a desirable future. Therefore, they kindle desire in casual encounters that they describe as “enjoyment” and ...