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 ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the ... “Caste oppression is among the greatest human rights problems in the world, ...

The caste system is a ‘unifying factor’ of Indian society, which the Mughals couldn’t understand and the British saw as a roadblock to their invasion of the country, the latest issue of the ...

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 ...

Within the Indian caste system, occupations were historically ... that differences in job losses between castes could not explained by education, industry, or occupation. This data suggests ...

The party promises financial aid worth Rs 2,500 for eligible women, Rs 25 lakh health insurance, and Rs 8,500 for unemployed ...

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.