FILE - Members of the audience listen to a speaker at a rally organized by National Conference of Dalit Organisations in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2005. Dalits, who belong to the lowest of ...

The Art of Living founder has put caste reconciliation on his public agenda. He organised the "Truth and Reconciliation" ...

New Study examines the prevalence of caste-based discrimination in India, why mainstream psychology often fails to capture ...

From lynchings and social boycotts to a historic caste census decision, 2025 showed that caste continues to shape violence, ...

A new report produced by the apex court on the evolution of jurisprudence on caste shows that even within a rule-based ...

The question is not whether caste hierarchies exist in prisons (they do) but whether the administration will confront its own ...

The caste system is a system in India which depicts the order of power that each person would have. Read more to find out the current state of the caste system in India. Photo by Artem ...

I met Minal at a retreat center in rural England in March 2023, and we became fast friends. We were there to attend a Buddhist course, with six other women from different parts of the world. Over the ...

Suprakash Majumdar is a Dalit journalist. He is based in Delhi and writes on social justice issues from the perspective of India's caste system. A new Bollywood movie is galvanizing Hindu audiences ...

Civic behaviour is shaped by a society conditioned to outsourcing the labour of cleaning to lower castes and women.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Caste is an ancient system of social ...

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 ...