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 ...

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

This was the foundation of ancient India’s education system ... Now, I won’t pretend it was a perfect system. There were some less-than-stellar aspects, like caste-based exclusions that ...

On February 4, the Telangana government announced the criteria for sub-categorisation of Scheduled Castes (SCs) in the state, as recommended by a one-membe ...

Dalit – Member of what was traditionally considered to be the lowest caste in the Indian caste system. Previously referred ... one of the two great Sanskrit epics of ancient India.