Nearly a hundred years after Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar’s famous treatise, The Annihilation of Caste, who would have thought ...

The UGC's new 2026 Equity Regulations aim to combat caste discrimination in higher education, mandating compliance and ...

Modern caste rigidity is as much a product of social conformity and colonial enumeration as of textual tradition. Democracy ...

National caste census has triggered a Bhumihar reckoning. The community in Bihar is waging a new battle for colonial-era ...

Temples, military labour markets, and land-grant regimes structured medieval caste hierarchies. Today, access to education, ...

The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) on Wednesday urged the University Grants Commission (UGC) to urgently rectify the ...

Bhagwat, speaking at a Sangh centenary event in Mumbai, urged people not to give “infiltrators” any employment and to be more "vigilant." ...

China and India are often compared as if they are two rising nation states. That is misleading. China is first and foremost a state that swallowed a civilisatio ...

Yet, the BJP has failed to convert religious Hindus into political Hindus in Tamil Nadu. This is because the socio-religious ...

Despite these formal legal protections, in many areas, Dalits are either unaware of their legal rights or don't have the resources to seek redress, thus discriminatory treatment continues. In India, ...

The kerfuffle over UGC's equity rules has settled down. But, the caste debate once again risks sliding into high-minded ...

I was intrigued and surprised to read a short piece written by Anup Tanaeja titled Untouchability Is Repugnant To Spirit Of Hinduism in a column “The Speaking Tree” in “The Times of India”, dated 30th ...