Caste segregates individuals at birth into predetermined social groups with Brahmins, who served society historically as academics and priests, at the top, while Dalits—previously known as ...

Oliver Wendell Holmes coined the term in a novel in 1861, calling Boston's elite families "the Brahmin Caste of New England." The Boston Brahmins have long held the interest of casual and ...

Presenting rich archival evidence and data on 16,000 indigenous schools in British India, historian Parimala V Rao asserted ...

About a dozen universities, including Harvard and California State University in the US, have included protections against caste-based discrimination in their policies. A professor told the task force ...

Gail told us that the non-Brahmin movement in western India faded away by the 1930s because a majority of the activists were part of the anti-caste, non-Brahmin movement and joined Congress.