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

India's caste system, which splits up Hindus into different societal groups according to their birth, is thought by researchers to go back some 3,000 years. Hindus are divided up into classes — based ...

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

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

Varna and caste had been the pre-colonial methods of vertical divide and rule. Added to these in the post-colonial times are ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday declared that caste-based discrimination of prisoners, segregation of their work according to caste hierarchy, and the treatment of inmates from the de-notified ...

HYDERABAD: The state government is likely to conduct a comprehensive socio-economic, educational, employment, political and ...

Discriminatory laws enacted before the Constitution of India came into force need to be scrutinised and done away with,” it ...

Noting that ’there cannot be any stigma attached to the existence, touch or presence of any person’, the Supreme Court has called caste-based discrimination in prisons ‘unconstitutional’. It has asked ...

Among other findings, the Court held that the right to life and personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution of India also includes a right to overcome one's caste barriers. The Supreme Court ...

The court said assigning cleaning and sweeping to marginalised and assigning cooking to higher caste is nothing but violation of Article 15 of the Constitution.