Director Ananth Mahadevan spoke about objections raised against the portrayal of caste-discrimination in his film, 'Phule'.

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.

We recall a central idea of Dr BR Ambedkar’s seminal work, which was an extension of his views about the corrosive effects of ...

Touching on everything from anti-caste traditions to the Buddhist legend of Matanga and Persian and Arabic perspectives on ...

The findings of Karnataka’s long-delayed caste census, officially known as the Socio-Economic and Education Survey 2015, have ...

The violence against the ‘surplus bodies’ of widows and widowers to ensure caste purity applies to the experience of Dalit ...