India’s caste system has roots in Hindu scriptures, and historically sorted the population into a hierarchy that defined people’s occupations, where they can live and who they can marry based ...

Fact checked by Suzanne Kvilhaug Reviewed by Andy Smith The Caste System: An Overview Discrimination against individuals based on caste would seem to be a relic of the past. Even in India, where ...

“I loved people without realising they had long been estranged from nature. Our emotions are preconditioned; our love is ...

Despite being outlawed in 1950, the caste system, which categorizes Hindus at birth and once forced the so-called “untouchables” or Dalits to the margins of society, is still omnipresent in ...

Caste identity in our times is not framed within the broader framework of the caste-system but around the newer aspirational ...

In the following frames, with the background music slowly rising, the video shows close-ups of Indian laborers — men, women, ...

CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 5, No. 2, IDENTITIES AND REPRESENTATIONS with Symposium on Caste and Psychology (April 2024), pp. 186-201 (16 pages) Despite our expectations that ...

India's current policy caps quotas at 50%, with 27% reserved for OBCs. Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy in India and is critical to Indian life and politics.

Yashica Dutt, author of “Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir of Surviving India’s Caste System,” reads an excerpt to an audience at Northwestern University in Evanston on May 1. Dutt also spoke at ...