In this modern Indian society, where people sit as a set of opinions and thought processes in a café over coffee, distressed ...

Discrimination against individuals based on caste would seem to be a relic of the past. Even in India, where the caste system was most rigid, the practice has been officially banned since 1950.

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(CNN) — For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian ...

Why do people defend social systems that oppress them? Why do the marginalized sometimes work to uphold structures and arrangements that limit their potential? These questions are not just ...

Anand Teltumbde’s Dalits and the Indian Constitution questions whether the law was meant to end caste or simply control it, exposing how justice, representation, and secularism failed Dalits.

The origin of the caste system does not lie in religious ideas of purity and pollution, racial differences, tribal or Harappan customs — or even the British census, as recent social media commentary ...

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What Is China Really Doing in Greenland? Fact-Checking Trump’s Arctic Claims Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (second from left) inaugurates the caste-based census in his ancestral village of ...

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