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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Indian society and politics are stratified by its caste system. It has roots in ancient religious texts, which grant symbolic and material rights and privileges to people based on their membership ...

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