The Indian government has long insisted that the social hierarchy has no place in the country, which banned caste ...

Investigating caste issues is crucial for understanding India's socioeconomic dynamics and addressing systemic inequalities.

The hierarchical identity system continues to divide the nation of 1.4 billion people almost 100 years after calls for its ...

More than two-thirds of country’s 1.4 billion people estimated to be on lower rungs of archaic social hierarchy that grades Hindus by birth ...

With the Centre giving the nod to include caste data in the upcoming population census, the long-standing debate over a caste ...

India’s caste system has roots in Hindu scriptures ... formerly known as the “untouchables,” who were made to work as cleaners and waste pickers. For centuries, castes on the bottom rung ...