The Western Indian town of Kolhapur has found itself in an unlikely global spotlight, as thousands of local artisans who hand ...

CCS Haryana Agricultural University is fast earning the moniker of ‘JNU of Haryana’ for its student-led protests ...

The controversy surrounding Zohran Mamdani's college application, where he identified as both Asian and Black, has reignited ...

Long before the British began counting castes, a Rajput kingdom in Rajasthan quietly did it first — not to classify people, ...

The Gita challenges caste by promoting inner qualities over birth, urging liberation from all social identities ...

Cabinet Committee decides on caste census for transformative governance, addressing inequities and enhancing democratic accountability in India.

In his opinion piece for The Indian Express, P Chidambaram critiques the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's (RSS) enduring goal of ...

In a society deeply rooted in the caste system, where Dalits (then called untouchables) were barred from entering Hindu temples, Maharaja Hari Singh, the last Dogra ruler of Jammu and Kashmir, issued ...

Every few years, the managers of India’s operating system find ways to reinvent the debate on an old problem. A decade and a ...

Child rights initiatives are concentrated in metropolitan areas while children in rural areas are left with makeshift courts ...

In our 75th Independence Day special issue, Outlook examined how the caste system endures—and what it will take to finally break it. Plus, more from archives.

Yet, there exists very little study of them as a distinct group. Enter Ravikant Kisana, whose new book, Meet the Savarnas, ...