The Indian government has long insisted that the social hierarchy has no place in the country, which banned caste ...

India’s caste system has roots in Hindu scriptures ... action should be based on other criteria like socioeconomic class, said Desai, also a professor of applied economic research at the ...

More than two-thirds of country’s 1.4 billion people estimated to be on lower rungs of archaic social hierarchy that grades Hindus by birth ...

Caste discrimination remains a persistent issue in Nepal, and members of the Dalit community are still victims of many abuses ...

In ‘Caste and Revolution’ by N. Ravi, the author addresses questions raised by Dalit and Bahujan intellectuals inspired by revolutionary parties. These questions centre on caste issues and ...

The hierarchical identity system continues to divide the nation of 1.4 billion people almost 100 years after calls for its ...

The 1950 Indian constitution tried to upend the caste system, outlawing exclusion based on class and attempting to enshrine social justice. India has also experienced affirmative action since the ...

The government has decided to hold a caste census along with the upcoming Census. Data collected by the Census will impact ...

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