First, the caste system is a four-fold categorical hierarchy ... categories of religion and caste as they are perceived in modern-day India were developed during the British colonial rule, at ...

it wasn’t until the centuries just before British rule that the modern caste system really became socially pivotal. With the ...

In addition, caste has allowed countless groups that have migrated into India to find a place and to play an important role. The caste system, as it actually works in India is called jati. The term ...

Caste is often viewed as an ancient and traditional structure of hierarchy with its origin in the Hindu religious system, flourishing in the social ecology of the Indian village. Such framings of ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the third annual conference on social exclusion in South Asia on Friday, April 28.

His wife survived the attack and went on to testify against her parents and campaign against the scourge of caste, as the BBC's Soutik Biswas reports. On the last day ... is India's caste system?

Born at the bottom of the Hindu faith's rigid caste system, voters like Anil Sonkar ... More than two-thirds of India's 1.4 billion people are estimated to be on the lower rungs of a millennia ...

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.

As more institutions adopt policies against caste discrimination, disagreements about caste's prevalence among those in the ...

Over 250 million people worldwide continue to suffer under what is often a hidden apartheid of segregation, modern-day slavery ... by the individual. Caste denotes a system of rigid social ...