The Dharmashastras, among which Manusmriti remains preeminent, clearly distinguishes between Shudras and the twice-born castes ...

The persistence of caste stigma against Dalits in India is a complex issue rooted in historical, social, economic, and ...

Bollywood film about anti-caste icons delayed after protests from Brahmins - India’s film certification body accused of ...

Caste — one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world — is thriving. Despite the ban on Untouchability 70 years ago, caste impacts 1.9 billion people in the world. Every 15 minutes, a crime is ...

While the varna system provided a broad ideological structure, the lived reality of caste operated through endogamous, occupation-based communities that numbered in the hundreds. Jati-s or Kula-s ...

PETALING JAYA: Jati Tinggi Group Bhd has received a letter of acceptance from Tenaga Nasional Bhd to perform contract works for a 275 kilovolts (kV) bulk supply connection to a data centre in ...

He was vehemently against the caste system and untouchability and consciously nourished ... which oversimplified and misrepresented the far more fluid varna-jati complex of the pre-colonial era. How ...

In the Hindu caste system, people are placed at birth into “varna” and “jati,” social groups within a strict hierarchy. Historically, caste assignment restricted the individual to certain ...

As many as 10 people, including six Schedule Caste women, were killed by men belonging to a gang led by dacoit Anar Singh Yadav. After 44 years of the gruesome killings, the court of special judge ...