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 ...

What is unfolding in Karnataka in the name of achieving social justice reminds us that caste continues to be a dominant ...

Essentially, a caste system is a rigid assignment of social status based on inheritance. Recent history shows that caste discrimination has by no means disappeared, even in the United States.

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

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

Karnataka PWD Minister Satish Jarkiholi on Friday said a decision on the Social and Educational Survey report, popularly ...

Anant Mahadevan’s Hindi biopic Phule is facing heat from Brahmin groups and CBFC. But for Dalits, it’s still a moment of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...