Former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud in a recent interview said that the Indian judicial system is not presided upon ...

But enforcement has been spotty. The popularity of stickers—and the deference they can inspire—is partly a reflection of India’s longstanding caste system, in which some people command ...

NEW DELHI—When Amrita Mishra passed the bar exam, she rushed out to pick up one of the biggest perks of being a lawyer in India: an “Advocate” sticker to slap on the window of her car.

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 ...

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.