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

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

It’s easy to think of the Varna system as something rigid, something that divides us into neat categories based on our birth.

In the Hindu caste system, people are placed at birth into “varna” and “jati,” social groups within a strict hierarchy. Historically, caste assignment restricted the individual to certain ...

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.

Anjum Manhas India, characterized by vast diversity, carries the complex legacy of the caste system-a centuries-old social structure that continues to influence its political, economic, and social ...

Despite being inextricably linked to Indian tradition, the modern understanding and usage of the word “caste” came through ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party has in the past opposed the idea of counting people by caste, ...

People are born into their caste. The system divides India's Hindu population into four categories based on their karma (work ...

The caste system is a rigid social stratification system ... formerly known as “Untouchables”, are on the lowest rung of the hierarchy and often targeted for discrimination, even though ...

Honest implementation of the results of caste census needs to be taken up on priority basis for having a just and humane ...