However, the reality in South ... rejects caste-based distinctions, social stratification among Indian Muslims has evolved. This is primarily due to the legacy of the Hindu caste system which ...

Recently, government officials supervised the reopening of a parish church near Chennai, the state capital, 2,100 kilometers south ... and lower-caste people face widespread discrimination and ...

On the council’s agenda, a caste discrimination resolution that would require the City of Anderson to both recognize and denounce the damage wrought by the caste system among some of its ... the ...

who has written extensively on caste system in Muslims, argued the existence of an "ethnic hierarchy" among Muslims and how this model of social hierarchy was inconsistent with the "ideal Islamic ...

Effectively, an American state body tried to define religious beliefs, claiming that the caste system was an integral ... anti-Hindu intent with the “South Asian” camouflage.

In 1950, the government reserved social benefits intended for Dalit people exclusively for Dalit Hindus, viewing the caste system as a reality of Hinduism. This order was subsequently amended twice to ...

In response to this urgent issue, UCLA Health has established the South Asian Heart Program, a pioneering initiative aimed at addressing the unique cardiovascular challenges faced by South Asian ...

The Bihar caste survey also revealed that of the 17 per cent Muslims in the state ... the Sangh knows exactly how the caste system operates and why it is politically necessary to leverage the ...

The caste system is a rigid social stratification system that dates back thousands of years and is still critical in Indian life and politics, with those at the bottom rung routinely discriminated ...

It may perhaps be one of the sharpest U-turns the BJP and the Union government it leads have taken till now but when it decided to conduct a caste census along with the population census whenever ...