Indian society rests on a graded hierarchy called caste, which Dr BR Ambedkar described as “an ascending scale of reverence ...

The BJP, despite its umbrella Hindutva assertion, has been more successful than other parties in cobbling coalitions with ...

In recent weeks, there have been efforts to outlaw what's known as "caste discrimination" in the U.S. Seattle became the first city to ban caste discrimination in February. Now California may add ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world’s most populous country. Information ...

India’s constitutional vision of reservations was never meant to become a permanent battlefield between communities. It was designed as a bridge - a temporary corrective mechanism to ensure ...

The court urged authorities to create a robust, expert-backed mechanism to eliminate errors in caste enumeration ...

The conference, titled "Critical Philosophy of Caste and Race", was organised by the CPCR, a research study group functioning ...

Chalam has advocated for caste enumeration in the population census. Mr. Chalam was speaking at the ‘caste census - ...

Omvedt first stepped onto Indian soil in 1963 on a Fulbright Fellowship, carrying the ideological fire of Berkeley's radical ...

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 ...

"Did you know that @VivekGRamaswamy was born into the highest caste of Indian, so special even royalty is below him? That his childhood servants can't walk through the same doors as him? That he wears ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will include caste details in its next census, in a move likely to have sweeping socio-economic and political ramifications for the world's most populous country. Information ...