Caste Consciousness: The census heightened awareness of caste distinctions, fostering competition and conflict between groups ...

The modern caste system developed in India. The fragmentation of the Mughal Empire led, in the centuries before the British Raj, to the spread of caste archetypes as a way to cement political ...

That an upper caste neta ‘purified’ a temple visited by a Dalit neta is shocking, and as BJP knows, politically damaging The ...

Until the modern age they ... and outside the Hindu caste system. Many retain their own languages, which are distinct from the main Northern and Southern Indian language groups.

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Two of the three men appeared at the special court in Mainpuri district on Tuesday A court in India has sentenced three men to death for the 1981 murder of 24 people from the Dalit (formerly ...

Historical Context of Caste System The modern caste system developed in India. The fragmentation of the Mughal Empire led, in the centuries before the British Raj, to the spread of caste ...