The Dharmashastras, among which Manusmriti remains preeminent, clearly distinguishes between Shudras and the twice-born ...

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

Bollywood film about anti-caste icons delayed after protests from Brahmins - India’s film certification body accused of ...

Ananth Mahadevan’s directorial `Phule` was scheduled to hit theatres today. However, the film hit a roadblock when members of ...

A first-generation Christian from a Hindu background, Rethinam, who goes by one name, was the only member of her family to ...

Arun Kumar Gupta One night, under the vast, starlit sky of Gujarat, a young boy named Mool Shankar lay restless, questioning the traditions he had grown up with. Born into a devout Brahmin family, he ...

The socio-political differences between India’s north and south may have reduced with decades of assimilation but Hindu ...

The Vedic religion in its original form was barbaric ... He was vehemently against the caste system and untouchability and consciously nourished gender equality. Therefore, from all perspectives, ...

Even in India, where the caste system was most rigid, the practice has been officially banned since 1950. Essentially, a caste system is a rigid assignment of social status based on inheritance.

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 ...