Even in countries that have outlawed discrimination, issues of caste discrimination are being raised. Historical Context of Caste System The modern ... requires writers to use primary sources ...

More than 240 million people in South Asia live a precarious existence, shunned by much of society because of their ranks as untouchables or Dalits at the bottom of a rigid caste system.

Why has a film about India's two revolutionary thinkers upset the self-proclaimed caretakers of the Brahmin community? Did ...

While anti-caste movements attribute the deeply entrenched and codified chaturvarna (four divisions) system that defines ... of non-violence as well as the use of Shudras, Chandalas as a pejorative.

A few months before that, I had asked PM Narendra Modi in the Parliament that we should get a caste census done in the country... I wanted to know who had what share in this country and whether ...

Congress MP Deepender Hooda on Wednesday said that the two-day Ahmedabad session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) ...

Belagavi: Karnataka BJP president B.Y. Vijayendra on Monday launched a sharp attack on Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, accusing him of using the caste census as a political tool to divide society and ...