Nationally, Nitish Kumar — who had commissioned the Bihar caste survey — leaving INDIA and Congress being concerned about caste matrices across states may have seen the party use the OBC card ...

Travelers to India have commented on caste for more than two thousand years. In Indian society the group comes first, unlike our own society that gives so much importance to the individual personality ...

It poses a threat to India’s sociocultural cohesion. To equate caste with race, as defined by CRT, not only misinterprets complexities of caste but also injects an alien framework into India’s ...

In the Indian context, this meaning is often framed through the distancing practices of caste. While they are often encoded ...

In what has been called Asia's hidden apartheid, entire villages in many Indian states remain completely segregated by caste. Caste-based abuse is also prevalent in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh ...

Explore how caste influences Indian politics, from historical shifts to emerging leaders and the growing role of marginalized communities.