A Google search for basic information on India's caste system lists many sites that ... the supposed origin of caste in the Rig Veda (most ancient religious text) was most likely added ...

In the Indian caste system, the most widely cited and perhaps ... The roots of caste are ancient. There is some articulation ...

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 ...

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

Dalit – Member of what was traditionally considered to be the lowest caste in the Indian caste system. Previously referred ... one of the two great Sanskrit epics of ancient India.

"This highlights that the ancient admixture events are related to the spread of languages and the history of the traditional ...

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.

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

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

(This August 14 story refiles to fix typo in para 17) OAKLAND, Calif (Reuters) - America's tech giants are taking a modern-day crash course in India's ancient caste ...

Kaur, who is Punjabi and Dalit – the latter being a term used to describe the most oppressed people in India’s caste system — comes from a family ... The term was coined by Guru Ravidas, the ancient ...