The eldest wants to be a Kshatriya and hold power ... The fourth group, too poor to patronise a Brahmin yagna ceremony, was deemed Shudra, unworthy of the second birth that allows a member ...

This included substituting terms in adapted quotes from Adolf Hitler, replacing “Jew” with “Brahmin,” to measure responses. The Equality Labs-trained participants were significantly more ...

The conception of the Maratha caste became integral to the social and caste dynamics with the addition of Kshatriya ... to Shudra varna. The Vedokta controversy propelled Shahu to break Brahmin ...

He accuses Shudra kings of “surrender[ing] the written word to the Brahmin”. Educated Shudra rulers such as Shahu Maharaj are seen complaining to the then Governor of Bombay about how deep and ...

Though Muslims in Dehri had started using the Hindu surnames much earlier, it caught the attention of media and the people when a wedding invitation card that mentioned the name of the sender as ...

According to Dilip Patil, founding president of Trivector, an infertility solutions firm, there is a sure preference for Brahmin donors in Mumbai. He says, ‘’Even among Muslims, couples want to know ...

In this age of frenzy, Kancha Ilaiah theorises about the category of Shudra and talks about their view of history. In fact, it is like a neo-renaissance for readers. Enumerating several varieties ...

Hanuman, conceived of by Valmiki as a forest dwelling, Sanskrit-speaking, shape-shifting brahmachari, challenges our notions of Hindu identity.