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 ...

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 ...

Bihar state’s caste-based population survey could increase PM Modi’s challenges ahead of next year's parliamentary election. Reservation of jobs and seats in educational institutions ...

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 ...