Indian society rests on a graded hierarchy called caste, which Dr BR Ambedkar described as “an ascending scale of reverence ...

Indian cities promise freedom, but caste segregation persists in housing, jobs, and neighborhoods. An economist explains ...

Teltumbde argues that the inherent definition of caste is divisive, and that the number of castes has recently multiplied. (ISTOCKPHOTO) Anand Teltumbde, an academic and an activist, has written an ...

On the social plane, we have in India a society basedon graded inequality…elevation for some and degradation for others.” — ...

As someone who has spent years speaking about caste, hierarchy, and inequality within Muslim societies, I cannot ignore the pattern anymore.

Tension between traditional spiritual authority and political Hindutva is growing. Religious leaders feel that the government ...

Caste is one of human history's oldest forms of inequality, legitimized by Brahmanical knowledge and enforced through caste-based violence and dehumanization. This paper argues that the anti-caste ...

If Rohith Vemula were alive in 2026, he would be around thirty-six years old. One can imagine him as a teacher, a public intellectual, perhaps a scientist or a ...

Nepal, May 22 -- Caste remains the primary axis of social stratification in India, influencing access to education, employment, land, political power and social mobility. The absence of comprehensive ...

Dr. S. Anandhi, a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in India, discussed class division for the lowest class, the Dalits’ and women’s rights in a talk titled, “The Pandemic of ...

Diving into the structural and enduring nature of racism and inequality in the United States, Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson spoke at the Cornell Center for Social Sciences’s Annual ...

Anand Teltumbde mines data and history to analyse the narrow framing, as well as futility, of a caste census in his new book ...