Unfavourable jail treatment stemming from colonial days such as toilet cleaning and cleaning septic tanks for those at bottom ...

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

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

Jajpur/Kalinganagar: In a blatant case of honour killing, a youth was allegedly killed by his family members for marrying a ...

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 ...

Chief justice observes distribution of work among prisoners 'based on their caste hierarchy is discriminatory, ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." But the public commentary around Harris and Vance, two figures of Indian descent in the spotlight of ...

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 ...

A Google search for basic information on India's caste system lists many sites that, with varying degrees of emphasis, outline three popular tropes on the phenomenon. First, the caste system is a ...

An RSS supporter and promoter of the idea of Hindu Rashtra, Kangana Ranaut is a new nationalist and a new cultural phenomenon ...