Why has a film about India's two revolutionary thinkers upset the self-proclaimed caretakers of the Brahmin community? Did ...

India’s film certification body accused of censoring anti-caste film ‘Phule’ under pressure from so-called upper caste groups ...

BR Ambedkar not only indigenised the concept of human rights but also reinstated human values in a society long dehumanised ...

The announcement marks a high-profile intensification of the government’s efforts to claim Ambedkar. On March 30th Mr Modi ...

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

as it meant identifying themselves as Dalits in their social and professional spheres. “In many families, children are asked to change their caste names so that they are not outed for their ...

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

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 ...

Dr BR Ambedkar, the chief architect of the Indian Constitution and independent India’s first Law Minister, remains a towering figure in the struggle for social ...

Caste Consciousness: The census heightened awareness of caste distinctions, fostering competition and conflict between groups vying for higher status or colonial favor. This contributed to the ...