To win support, they have been appealing to white Christian nationalism, a caste-based identity ... back the greatness of an ...

An 18th-century Indian Christian who devoted his life to speaking out against the caste system has become the country’s first layperson saint. In May, Pope Francis canonized Devasahayam ...

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 ...

Some Ambedkarites argue that Christian and Muslim Dalits cannot claim inclusion in Scheduled Castes because they converted to religions that have no formal caste system. However, other ...

“There is something going on in this state where people are trying to pretend the caste system doesn’t exist ... College who studies caste among Christian Indians, says that many of ...

The caste system started as a social construct created ... differences and exclusions are also in evidence in Muslim and Christian communities across South Asia." Alok Kumbhare spends time with ...

Be a Christian and it does not matter if you have separate burial grounds. This flexibility, I say, is not the weakness of Christianity. But it only proves the power of the caste system ...

Rani, through her lawyers, argued she has never been baptized as a Christian ... reserved social benefits intended for lower caste people to Hindus and those following Indian religions, viewing the ...

The phenomenon is undeniably found across all the diverse communities of Punjab, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh and Christian which ... to Buddhism which defied caste system and challenged the cultural ...

“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 grou ...