India's prisons should not discriminate based on caste, including assigning "impure" work to inmates from disadvantaged ...

India's ancient sages believed that a balanced society relies on the contribution of four“varnas”, generic categories ...

Ambedkar spoke with Voice of America news network on 20 May 1956 on the topic “Prospects of Democracy in India”. He said that ...

Caste is not and never has been a fixed fact of Indian life. Both caste as varna (the fourfold scheme of idealised moral archetypes) and caste as jati (smaller-scale birth-groups) are best seen as ...

The traditional Hindu social structure is made up of four“castes” which are hierarchically arranged. The priestly/scholarly ...

In its landmark judgment issuing directions to end caste-based segregation and division of work in prisons, the Supreme Court ...

For instance, while the RSS’s publication Panchjanya (August 5, 2024) praises the caste system, the RSS chief, Mohan Bhagwat, has simultaneously called for discarding both the varna and the ...

The social gradations among Ajlafs are marked by the past caste characteristics having close resemblance with the Hindu varna and jati systems. At the bottom of the Muslim’s class-caste ...

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