Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw ...

The notion that the British introduced India's rigid caste system is false. Eighteenth-century Indian rulers, Brahmins, and ...

It’s easy to think of the Varna system as something rigid, something that divides us into neat categories based on our birth. That’s the narrative most of us know, and it’s the one that has stuck ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Caste is an ancient system of social ...

An Allahabad High Court order recommends curriculum changes to address caste discrimination, challenging NCERT’s portrayal of ...

It is traditionally believed that the caste system has been in existence virtually as long as humanity. However, a recent study on genetics carried out by the Harvard Medical School and the ...

The reason India’s Dalits hate Gandhi is that, to the Dalits, he helped preserve the caste system, or Varna, in post independence India. To understand India you must understand caste, or what the real ...

I haven’t read better lines to explain caste as a poem by Akhil Katyal, titled Poetic License, excerpted thus: One day, when he was / About ten or twelve / He asked his mother / “What is my ...

The Lingayat religion is not a split from Sanatana Dharma. It is a religion that arose in opposition to caste and varna ...