Despite being inextricably linked to Indian tradition, the modern understanding and usage of the word “caste” came through ...

Caste, Wilkerson says, is the system that creates subjugation. What Wilkerson refers to in her book as “the false god of race” was invented by slave-owning European colonists as a convenient ...

Any number of random metrics could be used to divide and rank people in a caste system—ethnicity ... been a United States of America, people of European descent, people who looked like the ...

Amid tensions between India and Pakistan over the Pahalgam attack, the government took everyone by surprise by announcing that caste enumeration would be part of the next census exercise - a ...

Dallas Stribley / Getty Images A caste system segregates people into fixed social groups based on discriminatory notions of purity and contamination. People are placed into fixed social groups in ...

Outraged by the controversy, Anurag Kashyap questioned how the Brahmins still exist if Prime Minister Narendra Modi has successfully eradicated the caste system in India. In an Instagram post ...