A provocative new book warns that counting castes may entrench them further instead of dismantling the system.

The suicide of senior Dalit police officer Y Puran Kumar lays bare India’s caste system, showing that even success can’t ...

Sindhu Rajasekaran’s book is a Savarna reimagining of queerness, glossing over the dominance of caste in shaping desire, ...

The state has witnessed a continual recalibration of power among caste blocs and political parties within democratic bounds.

India’s census in 2026 will be the most significant since independence. Politics will be reshaped along the lines of caste, ...

A shocking case of caste discrimination surfaced in the news media at Kerala University, involving a PhD student named Vipin ...

Stressing that the RSS believes everyone is a Hindu, Mohan Bhagwat said there is no need to eradicate caste but forget it altogether by drawing a "bigger line" as the Sangh does ...

Caste is an ancient system of social hierarchy based on one’s birth that is tied to concepts of purity and social status. Its history, evolution and current state are complicated. A move to outlaw ...

After details of a violent gang rape in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, were released to the public last year, protests broke out all over India. The story of four upper-caste men brutalizing a 19-year old ...

A district government in Maharashtra, India, has started stamping 65,000 caste certificates through LegitDoc, a document-verifying system on the Polygon blockchain. In India, caste certificates are ...

With special prayers and Sunday liturgy, Christians prayed to end the injustice to the socially poor Christians from Dalit groups, said Father Vijay Kumar Nayak, secretary of the Indian Catholic ...

The case, filed by Amrutesh Vallabhaneni, highlights the growing concerns about the exploitation of H-1B visa holders in the ...