Investigating caste issues is crucial for understanding India's socioeconomic dynamics and addressing systemic inequalities.

Effectively, an American state body tried to define religious beliefs, claiming that the caste system was an integral part of Hinduism. It even assigned religion to an individual based on its own ...

Instead of treating caste as a Hindu practice, as taught in California textbooks, it claims that caste is universal: in every religion and every region including the diaspora. The twist was added ...

Sikhism, considered one of the youngest religions in the world, has since its inception denounced the caste system. Yet caste ...

Census is still some time away, but some unusual groups are looking at it with very mixed feelings. For Dalit Christians and ...

From the earliest periods of human civilisation, religion has served as one of the foundational elements of social identity ...

The hierarchical identity system continues to divide the nation of 1.4 billion people almost 100 years after calls for its ...

Yet the decades Ambedkar spent attempting to reform the Hindu religion, which he saw as inherently structured by caste, ended in one of the largest mass conversions to any religion in history.

Following Independence in 1947, the Nehruvian state continued with the colonial practice of conducting a decennial census, ...

The Madras High Court recently held that when a person voluntarily submits himself/herself for conducting marriage under the ...