After all, if Muslims and Christians can be subsumed under the “Hindu” category simply by virtue of living in India and ...

For over 2,000 years, the Brahmin was assured of his profession as a bureaucrat in the king’s court. The entire system was ...

Discover rare facts about Dr B.R. Ambedkar, from burning the Manusmriti and challenging Gandhi to converting to Buddhism and ...

Counting and classifying citizens for the caste census must not be treated as a benign exercise, but as a political act that ...

It appeared in news reports from last few weeks that the Government of Madhya Pradesh in an affidavit to the Supreme Court has endorsed a statement that “India's caste system was originally ...

In this news bulletin, India Today Executive Editor Preeti Choudhry and Senior Correspondent Apurva Jayachandran discuss the escalating political tension in Karnataka. The focus is on the 'Game of ...

The landslide victory of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the 2025 Bihar Assembly elections has created a perception that the voters have risen above caste and class considerations while ...

As Bihar heads into a crucial electoral battle, its major political alliances-the NDA and the Mahagathbandhan (MGB)-have quietly shelved their lofty slogans in favor of hard-nosed caste arithmetic.

While caste has reinforced social hierarchies, it also provides Dalits and backward communities a platform to exercise political power Upper-caste groups often use cultural capital to obscure caste, ...

A new genetic study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics has revealed that the Indian caste system– which is the traditional organisation of South Asian society into a hierarchy of ...

Despite constitutional promises of equality, Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) face persistent caste-based violence and exclusion. The National Crime ...