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

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 ...

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 ...

With conversion in mind, Max Mueller propounded the Aryan Invasion Theory in the mid-19th century, based on two main factors: racial eminence and comparative linguistics ...

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 ...

For socio-religious Hindu stratification, see Varna (Hinduism). "Castes in India" redirects here. For the book, see Castes in India: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development. we do not possess a real ...