In early sixteenth century Guru Nanak Dev the founder of Sikh religion observed the pathetic condition of women in the society Guru Nanak comdemned the attitude of maledominated human society denying ...

Mohan Bhagwat’s statement that the caste system should be dismantled to promote national unity has evoked both surprise and suspicion. In its centenary year, is the RSS willing to walk the talk ...

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 ...

Later, in 1955 during a BBC interview, he accused Mahatma Gandhi of writing in opposition to the caste system in English language papers while writing in support of it in the vernaculars. In the book, ...

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 ...

Why do people defend social systems that oppress them? Why do the marginalized sometimes work to uphold structures and arrangements that limit their potential? These questions are not just ...

(The American Heritage Dictionary) When we talk about caste systems, most people think of India with its divisions of society into four major levels: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, and Sudras ...

The Supreme Court of India declined to entertain a petition seeking to declare the country’s traditional caste system unconstitutional on Tuesday. The petition, filed under Article 32 of the ...

As he further observed: “The system of castes is a terrifying ... It is now essential that the Dvijas and the Sudras must not only understand to define caste as comprising of those capable ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Yashica Dutt, author of “Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System,” reads an excerpt to an audience at Northwestern University in ...