Lawyers, journalists and other members of the country’s educated class say their jobs entitle them to special treatment on ...

Former Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud in a recent interview said that the Indian judicial system is not presided upon ...

that their names not be mentioned — an unfortunate indicator of the volatility surrounding the issue of caste conflict in India. We would like to express our gratitude to the many Dalit men ...

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 ...

Scholars of caste—India’s longstanding, religiously-based system of social hierarchy—will gather at Brandeis to open the third annual conference on social exclusion in South Asia on Friday, April 28.

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 ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/saoa.crl.23937263 Copy URL Detached from: Journal of the East India Association, volume 3 no. 4 (1869). Paper read at meeting of the East ...

The Ministry of Home Affairs in India has amended the Model Prison Manual and Model Prisons and Correctional Services Act to address caste-based discrimination in prisons. This move, following a ...

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday yet again accused the Opposition of engaging in caste-based politics ... governments of neglecting rural India. “For decades, they ignored ...

I was a witness to Gandhi maintaining silence while Mr. Kumar strongly and logically spoke in favour of caste census at INDIA bloc meetings in several places." Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) was part of ...