With over 5m members, all male, the RSS is the biggest volunteer group in the world. It does charity work and teaches young ...

In Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada, Shahu Patole pays tribute to a cuisine that has long been considered not worthy of ...

Armed with a pocket edition of the Constitution and making an abhaya mudra — a hand gesture common to many South Asian ...

The Vedas, composed 3,000 years ago, are ambiguous about caste ideas. In fact, the earliest hymn that suggests a division of ...

Session: Prime Minister Narendra Modi replied to the debate on India's constitution in the Lok Sabha on Saturday. The Lok ...

One of the richest men of his time, Carnegie visited the Gangetic Belt after short stops in Madras and Calcutta.

Past, Present and Future’, the historian Aditya Mukherjee reiterates Jawaharlal Nehru's legacy against the distortions and ...

If that be the ideal then it follows that nothing should be done which will harden local patriotism and group consciousness,” ...

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 ...

Sharad Pawar’s political decline in Maharashtra represents the limits of dominant caste mobilisation in today’s India. And BJP’s Hindutva spells trouble for caste-based family-run parties ...

Neelakuyil was the first South Indian film to ... in the modern times where caste divisions are very much present but are indirect. “In those days, the caste system existed quite openly, but ...