Travelers to India have commented on caste for more than two thousand years. In Indian society the group comes first, unlike our own society that gives so much importance to the individual personality ...

Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi claimed on Monday that Dalits, backwards, tribals and poor general-caste ...

The report released at The Media Rumble, South Asia’s largest news media forum also shows that every 3 out of 5 articles in Hindi and English newspapers are written by General caste authors ...

More importantly, more than any other general elections since the early 1990s,the primacy of caste in India’s political landscape was established, belying prophecies that predicted the gradual ...

6 Although untouchability was abolished under India's constitution in 1950, and numerous laws have since been enacted to tackle caste-related problems of bonded labor, manual scavenging ...

A recent wealth distribution survey revealed that just 22% of upper caste hindus own almost 41% of the total wealth in India. According to the survey, the Scheduled Tribes accounted for the lowest ...

Sharad Pawar’s political decline in Maharashtra represents the limits of dominant caste mobilisation in today’s India. And BJP’s Hindutva spells trouble for caste-based family-run parties ...