Sasha Sabherwal, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts, delivered a talk entitled “Collective Fictions of Caste: Unsettling Caste, Gender, and Religion in the Sikh Diaspora ...

The origins of the caste system in India date back 3,000 years. A proposed ordinance in Seattle would add caste to the city's anti-discrimination laws. ... land-owning Jat caste. ...

In India, the origins of the caste system can be traced back 3,000 years as a social hierarchy based on one's birth. While the definition of caste has evolved over the centuries, under both Muslim ...

In India, the origins of the caste system can be traced back 3,000 years as a social hierarchy based on one’s birth. ... land-owning Jat caste. ...

SEATTLE — One of Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she “otherwise loved very much” — utter a slur to summon their lower-caste ...

Interestingly, Baba Guru Nanak, the pioneer of Sikh religion, was neither a Jat nor he endorsed caste worship in any way. He, on the contrary, vociferously opposed the caste system and decried its ...

In India, the origins of the caste system can be traced back 3,000 years as a social hierarchy based on one’s birth. ... land-owning Jat caste. ...

In India, the origins of the caste system can be traced back 3,000 years as a social hierarchy based on one’s birth. While the definition of caste has evolved over the centuries, under both ...

One of Kshama Sawant’s earliest memories of the caste system was hearing her grandfather — a man she “otherwise loved very much” — utter a slur to summon their lower-caste maid.