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 ...

Explore the harrowing legacy of India's caste system, the struggles of Dalits, and the fight for change against centuries of ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the third annual conference on social exclusion in South Asia on Friday, April 28.

into the caste system. It’s propagated by a section of postmodern intellectuals and woke or liberal lobbyists. It poses a threat to India’s sociocultural cohesion. To equate caste with race ...

India, a nation of staggering diversity ... true social and economic realities of our people through a caste census. The caste system, a deep-rooted reality in Indian society, has shaped access ...

"All states are directed to make changes in accordance with the judgement." Deep roots of the caste system India's caste ...

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.