The Gita challenges caste by promoting inner qualities over birth, urging liberation from all social identities ...

A controversy has erupted in Karnataka over the ongoing caste survey after CCTV footage went viral showing officials pasting ...

While tracing the existence of untouchability in Indian social life, Suraj Milind Yengde's book unveils the caste-based ...

Sociologist Prof. K Kalyani teaches at the School of Arts and Sciences at Azim Premji University in Bengaluru. She researches ...

In the name of ‘integral humanism, extreme pro right wing ideologues are putting forward, again, an ideology of a ...

An Indian mythologist, speaker, illustrator and author ...

Importantly, Neelakandan’s approach to the Indian caste system has the potential to open the space for a healthy discourse. The author makes a case for new social science in India.

Chidambaram wrote, “Within each varna there were divisions and sub-divisions and each one of them came to represent a caste (jati) or a sub-caste. Each caste or sub-caste became a closed shop; it ...

As a result, he suggested, upper-caste anger would eventually have to make way for deal-making with the party. “The BJP will have to convince them that they still get more from it than anybody ...

RSSFACTS: Swami Vigyananand’s ‘The Hindu Manifesto’ outlines eight civilisational pillars for a Hindu renaissance, challenges colonial and Western misconceptions about caste, and promotes a ...

As the government prepares to include caste enumeration in the upcoming national census, it revives memories of the last full-fledged caste census which was conducted way back in 1931. The census ...

HistoriCity: How caste evolved in ancient India By Valay Singh Apr 14, 2025 08:09 PM IST ...