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Ujjal Dosanjh: Caste Exists Outside India. CHANDIGARH, (IANS) – A hard critic of the Khalistan movement and the survivor of a brutal attack in Vancouver in 1985, this 76-year-old former Canada ...
Twenty-five to thirty-nine percent of Indians self-identify as vegetarians. ... Vegetarianism, ritual cleanliness, and priesthood were all associated with the upper-caste Brahmins, ...
English is now code for a clever adversary we’ve known in the past, variously as ‘anti-national’, ‘tukde-tukde gang’, ...
Apart from showing India to still be a caste-ridden country, the IITs’ difficulties show that education has failed in one very important respect, which it was touted to do: drive away prejudices.
Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access information on a device and to provide personalised ads and content, ad and ...
Protection of the “poorer” upper caste individuals: In 2019, the Indian government amended the constitution to introduce the concept of economic backwardness, to extend affirmative action and the ...
Mohan Charan Majhi, Odisha's first BJP chief minister, reflects on his year in office, achievements, challenges, and vision ...
Depictions of artisans, labourers and tradespeople clumsily captured Indian society and discrimination, but the driving ...
It's now largely forgotten that in the early 1900s, nearly a third of the Arabian Peninsula was under British India.
When Alexander arrived in the Indus Valley in 326 BCE, a local Indian tribe entertained him by setting their mastiffs loose ...
The Bihar government has formed an Upper Caste Development Commission ahead of the 2025 Assembly elections, signaling a strategic move to strengthen its caste-based voter outreach.