Caste Consciousness: The census heightened awareness of caste distinctions, fostering competition and conflict between groups ...

In an interview with Frontline, the Dalit poet and thinker Mudnakudu Chinnaswamy discusses Buddha, Basava, and Ambedkar’s ...

Illiterate and married off at age 10, Chaumar was forced into the only livelihood her family has known for generations. As a ...

Savitha highlighted plans to establish cooperative credit societies for various communities, including Arya Vaishya, Kshatriya, Kamma and Reddy communities, enhancing economic opportunities for BCs.

Pranay Perumalla, a Dalit man from Telangana’s Miryalaguda, was brutally hacked to death in 2018 for marrying Amrutha Varshini, a woman from the dominant Vaishya caste. Reacting to the verdict ...

In 2018, the main accused Maruthi Rao who belonged to the Vaishya community, orchestrated the murder of Pranay, a Dalit Christian, for marrying his daughter. Delivering the verdict in the 2018 ...

Devan Neelakandan Namboodiri, the then chief trustee of the temple and head of the Indamthuruthy Mana, didn’t allow Gandhiji to enter the house as he was a ‘vaishya’. Gandhiji had to hold ...

The Quranic perspective, as interpreted by scholars like Rahman, Esack, and Donner, challenges the notion of Islamic exclusivism by affirming the universality of divine guidance and the ...