CHENNAI: No caste can claim a right over the administration of a temple, the Madras high court has said, asserting that a ...

From lynchings and social boycotts to a historic caste census decision, 2025 showed that caste continues to shape violence, ...

A new report produced by the apex court on the evolution of jurisprudence on caste shows that even within a rule-based ...

Constructively criticising the Constitution is imperative at a time when its survival is threatened by the Hindutva project.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar (second from left) inaugurates the caste-based census in his ancestral village of Bakhtiarpur in Bihar, India, April 15, 2023. Credit: Wikipedia/Information and ...

Civic behaviour is shaped by a society conditioned to outsourcing the labour of cleaning to lower castes and women.

To read Isabel Wilkerson is to revel in the pleasure of reading — to relax into the virtuosic performance of thought and form one is about to encounter, safe and secure that the structures will not ...

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Students in Alawalpur allege caste discrimination by teachers, claiming forced labor and segregation based on caste in their ...

While many young Indians are showing an interest in marrying across caste, indications are that not many actually go ahead and cross caste boundaries. Recent research by Amit Ahuja, assistant ...

Our founding ideals promise liberty and equality for all. Our reality is an enduring racial hierarchy that has persisted for centuries. Credit...Photo illustration by Chris Burnett Supported by By ...